clone 663382 -1
reassign -1 apt
severity -1 normal
retitle -1 don't remove extended_states even on purge

On 2012-03-10 15:40, Raphael Geissert wrote:
[...]
> > should make cupt happy. I thus downgraded severity a bit.
> 
> TBH, I disagree with downgrading the severity. Like with many kinds of bugs, 
> you can work around them, but that doesn't mean the impact is lower.

Ack, let it be serious (I had a typo in a snippet to control@b.d.o so
the severity stays serious).

> I also wonder if you shouldn't be at least recommending one of the download 
> methods...

They are recommended:

$ cupt depends libcupt2-0 | grep download
  Recommends: libcupt2-0-downloadmethod-curl | libcupt2-0-downloadmethod-wget

> > Regardless of the Cupt-side fixes, I would say it's an error for apt to
> > delete these kind of files even on purge, and a serious error if its
> > deleted by a simple removal (you didn't specify the command so I can't
> > guess was your case 'remove' or 'purge'). You may want to file a bug on
> > apt about this.
> 
> I purged apt. APT's postrm runs rm -rf on /var/cache/apt and /var/lib/apt.

Ack. I cloned the bug to APT.

-- 
Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer



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