On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:09:48PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Em Seg, 2005-08-22 às 01:32 +0200, Marco d'Itri escreveu: > > The (still not uploaded) coldplug package conflicts+depends+provides > > hotplug. The issue is that since all the important parts of hotplug are > > conffiles they are not deleted when the package is removed, and this > > is bad (as in "the system will probably not boot" bad). > I can't understand why that would be the case; could you please > elaborate? > > Does a way to force purging the package exist? > > Is there anything else I can do, other than deleting the files in the > > hotplug postinst? > I think you should simply not be going that way; the conffiles are to > remain, you should not be touching them. I think I'd go for a 'move them > aside to some kind of backup place and warn the admin by email (debconf > note)'. If you do that, how do you ensure that these two cases are both handled sanely?: - after installing the coldplug package, the admin purges the hotplug package, and later reinstalls it (removing coldplug) - after installing the coldplug package, the admin reinstalls hotplug (removing coldplug), expecting this to give a hotplug package with a working config Since the principal reason for preserving these unmodified conffiles would surely be so that they could be restored later, both scenarios seem relevant. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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