reassign 618885 debian-policy thanks Hi Roberto, hi policy maintainers!
On Freitag, 29. April 2011, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > 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. Hm, right, at least on a quick search for config files I cannot find anything in policy how config files should be treated, I can merely guess from the ucf description that they exist... > 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? yes, as you've seen by now :) I've now reassigned to policy as I've been suggested to do on irc. (And thank you very much indeed for looking for constructive ways out! Much appreciated!) cheers, Holger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org