Re: NEVER remove log files without asking

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be>]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 08:52:19PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:58, Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 05:30:30PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > > I'd prefer it to be the latter, since (a) what's default at remove might
> > > not have been default at install / last configuration, and (b) we have a
> > > quite reasonable method of removing the package's regular files without
> > > getting rid of logfiles -- it's called 'remove'.
> >
> > Yes, but that also leaves configuration files.
> 
> Including scripts in directories that are used by run-parts...

Policy mandates such scripts to check, prior to doing *anything*,
whether things they want to start actually do exist on the system. This
should be a non-issue.

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