Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

Hi, On Montag, 4. Januar 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > There are several arguments that say that such data shouldn't be deleted > on purge. I don't know how persuasive they are. I'll answer them in reverse order :-) > * Whether it makes sense given Debian semantics or not, users just don't > ex

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

Holger Levsen writes: > Well, I think about changing my mind here. In the past, piuparts has > indeed ignored eg the non-removal of the ldap database on purge. But now > I wonder, why should this be done. Unix has a tradition to allow you to > shot into your foot and if you do a purge of a packag

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

Hi, On Montag, 4. Januar 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> and what the requirements of a package are around preserving or > >> removing its data other than log files and configuration files on > >> purge? If so, that would be the relevant place to talk about whether > >> or not directories like /va

Re: Failure with piuparts on piatti server

Hi, the following is a reply I've just send to the mentors list, where this issue was also reported (and answered by Paul). On Montag, 4. Januar 2010, Paul Wise wrote: > The puiparts host was broken when it tried your package, it couldn't > find sid.tar.gz [...] > I'm guessing it is simply a sid