hi, On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:24:48PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Does dbconfig-common know about all of these config files? > > I think it's the responsibility of dbconfig-common to track them, and remove > them on purge. That way if your package is purged while dbconfig-common is > installed, the config file is removed, and if dbconfig-common is removed > before purge, a dpkg --purge dbconfig-common can still clean it up.
i think in hindsight that's the way it *should* have been, but the documentation has suggested the contrary for long enough that i'm hesitant to break things, at least this late into the release cycle. sean
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