On Aug 23, Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org> wrote: > > The (still not uploaded) coldplug package conflicts+depends+provides > > hotplug. The issue is that since all the important parts of hotplug are > > conffiles they are not deleted when the package is removed, and this > > is bad (as in "the system will probably not boot" bad). > I can't understand why that would be the case; could you please > elaborate? Think "hotplug events loop". > I think you should simply not be going that way; the conffiles are to > remain, you should not be touching them. I think I'd go for a 'move them > aside to some kind of backup place and warn the admin by email (debconf > note)'. No way, this is a waste of admins' time and most of the times would have the effect of leaving orphaned files on systems. -- ciao, Marco
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