Bug#618885: are packages allowed to per default not purge on purge?

2011-04-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 29. April 2011, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Russ and Bill, > Thanks very much for your input on this. Yup, thank you! /me wonders if+how policy should be made more clear on config files... (not conffiles). > I have reassigned the bug back to sasl2-bin and will look into a > sol

Bug#618885: Processed: Re: Bug#618885: are packages allowed to per default not purge on purge?

2011-04-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
clone 618885 -1 reassign -1 debian-policy thanks Oy! I didn't see that it had already been assigned to policy. Sorry. Regards, -Roberto On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 09:00:09PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > > > reassign 618885 sasl2-b

Bug#618885: are packages allowed to per default not purge on purge?

2011-04-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
reassign 618885 sasl2-bin found 618885 2.1.23.dfsg1-8 retitle 618885 sasl2-bin: Remove /etc/sasldb2 on purge if unmodified since installation thanks On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 09:18:41PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > I would like to thank you for writing that. The distinction should be > done be

Bug#618885: are packages allowed to per default not purge on purge?

2011-04-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 09:57:17AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Holger Levsen writes: > > > please read #618885 which is about whether sasl2-bin can kept files on > > the system after purging it. > > > Policy 6.8 says that files must be removed on purge, Roberto says > > sasl2-bin is an exceptio

Bug#618885: are packages allowed to per default not purge on purge?

2011-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Holger Levsen writes: > please read #618885 which is about whether sasl2-bin can kept files on > the system after purging it. > Policy 6.8 says that files must be removed on purge, Roberto says > sasl2-bin is an exception. I disagree. I concur with Roberto in general. I don't think removing a

Bug#618885: are packages allowed to per default not purge on purge?

2011-04-29 Thread Holger Levsen
reopen 618885 reassign 618885 tech-ctte thanks Hi, please read #618885 which is about whether sasl2-bin can kept files on the system after purging it. Policy 6.8 says that files must be removed on purge, Roberto says sasl2-bin is an exception. I disagree. There are some packages in the archi