Re: buglets: kdebase and kdm 2.1.1-7 in sid
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:32:25AM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > 1. Would I be a rude ass to ask for a "clean-up" script?
> > > (e.g. throughout a number of changes, updates, etc files were
> > > created, used, discarded, left, but no deleted.)
> >
> > well...there should be nothing outside of /home...if there is that is a
> > packaging bug (or even rarely a upstream bug) which needs to be reported...
> >
> it's not that simple - at least i think so. unproven theory:
> config files are not removed, unless you set a package on "purge".
> upgrading (of course) does not include purging, so the config files
> remain. if you then purge the upgraded package, the configs, which were
> part of the earlier version but not of the later one, will stay there.
> does this make sense or is dpkg more clever?
like I said...if there are files outside of /home that still remain and
shouldn't it's a packaging problem and should be reported.
Ivan
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