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Re: idea: unclear purge cleanup package



On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 06:02:42PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 11:51:54PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 20:29:14 -0500, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
> > Doesn't cruft address this?
> Perhaps it does, but IMNSHO, cruft has accumulated a lot of cruft itself
> (see BTS).  Somebody needs to pay attention to it. Eh, ajt? ;-)

cruft wasn't able to keep track of all the random files in /etc
back when it was written, there's no chance of it doing so now. If
anyone cares, they can feel free to resolve, umm, [0] to everyone's
satisfaction. Without some way of handling that, there's really not much
point to cruft.deb afaic.

Cheers,
aj

[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/1998/debian-policy-199804/msg00089.html



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