Touch /var/run/sshd/.placeholder in the preinst so that /var/run/sshd,

which is intentionally no longer shipped in the openssh-server package
due to /var/run often being a temporary directory, is not removed on
upgrade (closes: #575582).

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/debian/openssh-server.postinst b/debian/openssh-server.postinst
index 325af4ef4..4ed956454 100644
--- a/debian/openssh-server.postinst
+++ b/debian/openssh-server.postinst
@@ -473,6 +473,9 @@ commit_mv_conffile /etc/pam.d/ssh /etc/pam.d/sshd
 if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt 1:4.7p1-1; then
     rm -f /etc/ssh/primes
 fi
+if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt 1:5.5p1-6; then
+    rm -f /var/run/sshd/.placeholder
+fi
 
 
 db_stop