ke, 2005-09-28 kello 14:09 -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas kirjoitti:
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> 
> > Package: dovecot-common
> > Version: 0.99.20050712-2
> >
> > When dovecot-common is purged, it leaves the SSL certificates behind on
> > the system (see below for piuparts log snippet). I think they should be
> > removed, upon purge, like other configuration files.
> 
> In the past I have been specifically asked not to do that.  The problem is
> someone may have got themselves a real certificate from e.g. verisign and they
> would be very annoyed if I destroyed it.  Is the Debian conffile handling
> tech capble of dealing with this type of situation or should I implement
> some kind of method of detecting whether the cert was generated by the
> package or not?

Yeah, it's a difficult situation, I guess. In my opinion, if the
certificates are important, the sysadmin shouldn't purge the package
(just remove it), and, anyway, they should back up the certificates
somewhere safe.



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