On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 01:30:58PM +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
> tag 455103 +pending
> thanks
> 
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 06:29:10PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> > Well, a release goal demands severity important. You may want to
> > confirm this with the Release managers, I may be wrong.
> 
> You said "release recommendation" in the original bug report, which
> I took to mean this was just a proposed release goal.

Sorry for not being clear.

> > On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 12:21:50PM +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
> > > The problem seems to be that xapian-omega.prerm contains:
> > > 
> > >     if [ "$1" = purge ] ; then
> > >       rm -rf /var/lib/xapian-omega/templates
> > >     fi
> > >   
> > > But it's postrm that gets called with purge according to the developers
> > > reference, not prerm.
> > 
> > Well, the release goal dictates that a purge must result in removal of
> > all files and directories belonging to that package. Therefore, I
> > presume that this should imply that the postrm must also get rid of
> > these files. Of course, please confirm this with a release manager
> > in charge of this task (Luk Claes) if you are unsure.
> 
> I am sure that the bug is as I describe above.  The fix will be in the
> next upload.

Thanks for the clarification! :-)

Kumar
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