Bug#109691: clone 109691; reassign 109691 sendmail

[Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>]

clone 109691 -1
unmerge -1
reassign -1 sendmail
tags -1 - moreinfo
severity -1 normal
retitle -1 postrm should not rm conffiles
thanks

There *is* a bug in sendmail.  The postrm rm's the conffiles
on purge.  It should not.  The management of conffiles should
be left up to dpkg.

What happens:
   Install sendmail      ... installs sendmail's conffiles
   Install sendmail-tls  ... sendmail-tls now owns the conffiles
   Purge sendmail        ... sendmail's postrm rm's the conffiles

I am cloning this so that 109691 can still be used to track the
allegation that dpkg sometimes purges conffiles that have been
taken over by replacing packages.  The thing is that every
case of this phenomenon I have investigated can be attributed
to a misbehaving postrm.  Therefore, I am inclined to think that
109691 can be closed soon unless someone can prove that there 
really is a fault in dpkg.

--
Thomas Hood