Re: How to get dpkg to remove directories?
In linux.debian.devel, you wrote:
>> 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.
Hmm. All my testing shows that dpkg --remove will not remove
files under /etc even if they're not listed in debian/conffiles.
I've built packages with no debian/conffiles at all, and when I
do a remove, files under /etc stay and the others get removed.
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