Re: What should postrm purge actually do?

["Jeremiah C. Foster" <jeremiah@jeremiahfoster.com>]

> Richard Kettlewell writes ("What should postrm purge actually do?"):
> > Is it written down anywhere what postrm purge is supposed to do? 
> > Presumably remove some set of files, but what criteria should be used to 
> > choose which?
 
> > Things I'm uncertain about, that someone might actually miss:
> >     - log files
> 
> Yes, these should be removed.

I think removing log files is a bad practice. A user may need to keep
those log files (by law for example) and unbeknownst to them, debian
has removed them when they removed web server X to replace it with
web server Y. 

Log files should be out of bounds, even for --purge.

    Jeremiah