Re: How to get dpkg to remove directories?
Previously Steve Greenland wrote:
> Apparently Wichert is going to fix that. But there's another case:
> configuration files that are managed by the maintainer scripts.
There is a more general case of files associated with a package that
dpkg does not know about. Also consider file generated in /var for
example. I would like to add a general mechanism to dpkg to deal with
such files that are associated with a package but not included in the
deb file. Part of that includes moving the handling of conffiles outside
of dpkg to a seperate util that dpkg can call, which will also make it
easy to optionally support debconf for the associated prompting.
> Hmm, never seen that, but probably never tried it, either. Wichert, is
> dpkg really special casing files under /etc/ that way? (Don't answer, I
> guess I need to go read the bugreports.)
dpkg has no special casing. The fact that files in /etc should be
conffiles is dictated by Debian policy, dpkg just implements the
conffile mechanism used.
Wichert.
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