On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:13:28PM +0300, Teodor MICU wrote: > 2012/5/12 Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>: > >> There is no way to tell whether a file in /etc/console-setup is owned by > >> the package console-setup or it has been put there by the admin and is > >> unrelated to console-setup. > > Who cares? > > And most package maintainers have not bothered to implement such handling. > Well, at least «dpkg» cares about this and prints a warning for any > directory that is supposed to remove but it's not empty Which is appropriate because dpkg does not encode policy about how these directories are used. The console-setup package has no such constraint when dealing with the /etc/console-setup directory. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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