Bug#431946: lintian: maintainer-script-removes-device-files creates false positives

[Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@debian.at>]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.32
Severity: normal

        Hi!

 The maintainer-script-removes-device-files is too narrow minded. ;)  It
creates false positives for constructs like:

$ lintian abook_0.5.6-4_powerpc.changes 
E: abook: maintainer-script-removes-device-files postinst:45
E: abook: maintainer-script-removes-device-files postrm:18
E: abook: maintainer-script-removes-device-files postrm:19
$ head -19 abook-0.5.6/debian/postrm | tail -2
        rm /etc/Muttrc.d/abook.rc.removed 2> /dev/null || true
        rm /etc/Muttrc.d/abook.rc 2> /dev/null || true

 Please make the check less intrusive, I'm not removing any device files
and I don't think writing overrides files for this cases should be
needed.

 So long, and thanks.
Rhonda