> Testing didiwiki with piuparts, I get the following error:
>
> 0m6.1s ERROR: Package purging left files on system:
> /var/lib/didiwiki
> /var/lib/didiwiki/styles.css
>
> styles.css seems to be a symlink created in postinst; you'll probably
> need a prerm to remove it (postrm may be too late).
styles.css is initially a symlink into /etc, but it could be replaced by the
user, so I'm not sure it makes sense to deal with it specially compared to
other files in /var/lib/didiwiki -- or at least not unless the package
removal script first checks that it is still a symlink to the initial target.
This change:
---
/home/moray/Projects/debian/hanna/didiwiki/didiwiki-0.5/debian/didiwiki.postrm
2005-03-31 21:45:14.000000000 +0100
+++ debian/didiwiki.postrm 2006-01-21 19:47:23.000000000 +0000
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
case "$1" in
purge)
- userdel didiwiki || true
+ userdel -r didiwiki || true
rm -f /var/run/didiwiki.pid
;;
would remove /var/lib/didiwiki entirely when the package is purged.
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