Re: cipux in NEW queue
cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) skrev:
> On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Steffen Joeris wrote:
...
>> I would consider this as a violation of the debian policy, because it adds
>> (without noticing) ldap data which no admin would expect while installing
>> it and
>
> wethere this breaks debian-policy is dependend on wether you mess with
> configuration files of other packages, as long as you don't do that it's
> not only allowed but fairly common to add configuration.
>
> (just check the number of *.d directories under /etc/, as madduck said in
> his fosdem talk, I think the .d stands for debian :)
>
>> it gets not removed during a purge.
>
> If it's purely configuration of the package then it should be removed on
> purge, afterall that's what purge is for.
>
> If on the other hand we're also talking about other data then a lot packages
> seem to handle this by adding a low priority debconf question about wether
> or not to remove the data on purge (e.g. newservers ask wether to delete
> the news-archive, database-servers ask wether to delete the databases, ...)
I think maybe if you add a schema to slapd.conf, then add some data
using this new schema, then removes the schema definition, without
removing data, you might end up with a useless database (not sure, I
don't think I have ever tested this...)
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