Re: How to get dpkg to remove directories?
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 05:52:27PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> In linux.debian.devel, you wrote:
^^^
The attribution here could perhaps be better ...
> > This should never happen. Files in /etc MUST be marked as
> > conffiles.
>
> Is that documented anywhere? I couldn't find it mentioned in
> debian-policy.
Yes, if you read it carefully. If you're shipping a file in /etc as part
of the .deb, the only way to preserve changes as required by the section
on configuration files is to make it a conffile. Of course, this doesn't
prevent you managing a configuration file in /etc entirely in your
maintainer scripts and not marking it as a conffile, but then you're
responsible for removing it on purge.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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