Re: Why is help so hard to find?
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:54 AM, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> > It's the responsibility of packages to clean up obsolete conffiles as
> > they're upgraded. If you run into the case of a package that's been
> > upgraded and not cleaned up its obsolete conffiles, and there isn't some
> > reason for that, that's worth a bug report. Too late for this release,
> > probably, of course....
>
> Shouldn't this be the responsibility of the package manager?
> Otherwise it sounds like a big code duplication problem.
man dpkg-maintscript-helper
Olaf, I appreciate you are trying to help. But you are discussing too much
and doing too few research before posting mails over here.
<rant>
When a thread gets to the point where 3 non-packagers are discussing (and
sometimes bashing) together the work of other Debian contributors, it's a
big FAIL.
</rant>
Cheers,
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