Bug#470633: Explicitly say obsolete configuration files may be removed

2010-06-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover writes: > On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 14:42:46 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Also, if I remember this discussion correctly, Policy currently could >> be read as saying that a package isn't permitted to remove its obsolete >> configuration files, so we should at least fix the wording to ma

Bug#470633: Explicitly say obsolete configuration files may be removed

2009-09-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This bug has not been looked at for a while. The wiki article: states: ,[ http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling ] | If you completely remove a configuration file, you should make sure | it's also removed from the disk. However if the user has modified it, | then you h

Bug#470633: Explicitly say obsolete configuration files may be removed

2009-09-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Manoj Srivastava writes: > This bug has not been looked at for a while. The wiki article: > states: > ,[ http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling ] > | If you completely remove a configuration file, you should make sure > | it's also removed from the disk. However if the user

Bug#470633: Explicitly say obsolete configuration files may be removed

2009-09-09 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 14:42:46 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Manoj Srivastava writes: > > > This bug has not been looked at for a while. The wiki article: > > states: > > ,[ http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling ] > > | If you completely remove a configuration file, you