-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Florian Weimer wrote: > * Paul Waite: > >> The requirement is to purge Axyl fully (apt-get remove --purge). For >> that the postrm script needs to know the current locations of home, >> data and logs which the user may have changed since >> installation. These are defined in /etc/axyl/axyl.conf but this file >> is removed by the time postrm runs. > > I guess you should only purge the default location, following the > principle of least surprise. Certainly I wouldn't expect a package to > change the file system outside the package just because I listed some > directories in the configuration file. > > I couldn't find a policy rule for this case, but I suspect there is one.
Well it used to do something like that, but then whilst fixing bug #431710 in axyl-lucene, and testing this by running piuparts, I discovered that I had piuparts errors complaining that I hadn't removed all package content on purge. I assumed that this was new policy to keep systems clean of cruft (I could see the reasoning), and so changed my packages accordingly. It should be noted that, having looked just now, I can't actually find official policy on this concept of purging absolutely *everything* in this way, so I'm not sure what the piuparts errors were based on. If full purge isn't official policy, then the quick fix would be to remove this functionality entirely for now, and I'd be quite happy to do that. Cheers, Paul. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH3Z8XtfkpAgkMOyMRAsvsAKCnWFdFQ/uP3+uHpV5ImivO9ZjzBwCglWtS MMyKc2WbPh156GCExE426jQ= =SV8o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
