On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 06:28:32PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 05:21:55PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am trying to fix the following errors on the dcmtk package: > > > > 0m18.3s ERROR: FAIL: Package purging left files on system: > > /var/lib/dcmtk not owned > > /var/lib/dcmtk/db not owned > > > > /var/lib/dcmtk/db is a special directory. This is the location where > > incoming DICOM files are stored on disk. So this directory should IMHO > > only be removed when the user really understand what it does. when and > > how should I remove this directory ? > > Add a postrm script that checks if the user is really purging your > package (check if [ "$1" = 'purge' ]) and, if so, remove the directory, > assuming that the user who specifically issued a purge request really > understands what she's doing to the package and all of its data files :)
And since it might be precious data, you could also check whether the directory is empty and not remove it in this case, but issue a warning saying why it was left on the system. Michael -- Michael Hanke http://mih.voxindeserto.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110317174026.GC22586@meiner
