On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:51:17AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Samstag, 23. April 2011, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > This is not a bug. > > Yeah, right. It's not a bug because you dont care about policy which says you > must purge the package on purge. > Yes well, I'm sure you would appreciate it if, for example, purging postgresql also removed /var/lib/postgesql. I would not appreciate it, that much is for certain. That is, unless I specifically told the package that it was OK to do so.
But then again, I guess you decided not to read the rest of my email where I point out that the adminitrator is *asked just such a question* in the case of /etc/sasldb2. > I'm glad most of the 18000 source packages respect policy. > And this one does respect policy. It is only when it cannot obtain an answer from the admin on the disposition of /etc/sasldb2 that it errs on the side of caution and leaves the file untouched. The admin can always trivially remove it later. Restoring the file may not be so straightforward. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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