Problem with --purge and reinstalling
Dear mentors,
I'm maintaining the yorick-* packages. The source package is split
into yorick, yorick-data and yorick-dev. The conffiles are in the -
data package. However, yorick.postrm removes these files upon --
purge. I guess I must have been slightly offset from my head when I
did this, but that's the situation in Etch.
I just noticed a problem if a user does:
aptitude install yorick (installs yorick and yorick-data)
aptitude remove yorick (removes yorick and yorick-data)
dpkg --purge yorick (deletes /etc/yorick/*, which actually belongs to
yorick-data)
aptitude install yorick (installs yorick and yorick-data)
When reinstalling yorick the conffiles are not installed! One needs
to purge y-data for these conffiles to get reinstalled.
I can clearly see that there is a bug in my packages in that
yorick.postrm should certainly not remove files owned by yorick-data,
but I don't understand why the files are not reinstalled.
I also wonder how to fix this issue best: I guess /etc/yorick files
should belong in the package "yorick", not "yorick-data", but can I
simply switch the files from one package to the other?
Regards, Thibaut.
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