Bug#193979: dpkg: /usr/sbin/dpkg-statoverride preventing start up of certain daemons

[simon raven <simon@nuit.ca>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.10
Severity: normal
Tags: sid

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- dpkg-statoverride --list /var/run/saslauthd
stripping trailing /
root sasl 710 /var/run/saslauthd

AND:

- invoke-rc.d saslauthd start  
Starting SASL Authentication Daemon: stripping trailing /
saslauthd.

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all i get is stripping trailing / when a) there aren't any trailing /,
and b) it somehow prevents the daemon from starting up. i didn't get
this behaviour with 1.10.9. it's under severity: normal, but i think it
should be more severe.

eric côté


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux nuit.ca 2.4.20-xfs-ipv6-ipsec #1 Sat Mar 29 20:36:00 UTC 2003 ppc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_CA

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
hi  dselect                       1.10.10    a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii  libc6                         2.3.1-17   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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