Comment 4 for bug 453049

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: couchdb fails to install because /var/log/couchdb does not exist

@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@

 case $1 in
     configure)
- mkdir -p /var/lib/couchdb
+ test -d /var/log/couchdb || mkdir -p /var/log/couchdb
+ test -d /var/lib/couchdb || mkdir -p /var/lib/couchdb
         chown -R couchdb:couchdb /var/lib/couchdb
         chown -R couchdb:couchdb /var/log/couchdb
         chmod -R 0770 /var/lib/couchdb

The test is unnecessary, mkdir -p already implies this.

Also, the attached debdiff includes another patch for a bug that's marked private. Please unmark the bug as private (if it doesn't contain information that needs to be private), or create a public bug report that's a suitable reference for the upload changelog.