Hi Holger, On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 02:25:35PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Sonntag, 24. April 2011, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > > 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. > > I think every package should err on the side of policy. If you think policy > should be different, go and try to change policy. > > > The admin can always > > trivially remove it later. Restoring the file may not be so > > straightforward. > > not purging in the first place is very simple. and, "the trivial way to > remove > it later" is, doh, to purge, not to remove. bingo. >
Regardless, policy states the following in section 6.8:
5. The conffiles and any backup files (~-files, #*# files, %-files,
.dpkg-{old,new,tmp}, etc.) are removed.
Please note that /etc/sasldb2 is not a conffile. So, not removing it
should not be considered a policy violation.
I think that both of us feels strongly about our particular positions.
We may need to seek an alternate means of resolving this. Do you have
any ideas/suggestions on this?
Regards,
-Roberto
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