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Re: Reducing the size of apt-caches



On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 10:00:26AM -0700, Ryan Finnie wrote:
> On 9/7/06, Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu> wrote:

>>You don't want to do that. The debconf database is in
>>/var/cache. Yes, I consider that a bug.

> Eeek.  Well, that explains why dist-upgrades keep asking the same
> medium-priority questions.  It doesn't really affect my project
> personally since nothing has been configured differently from
> debconf defaults, but that is good to know.  (And yeah, why the heck
> isn't it in /var/lib?)

The maintainer disagrees with our assessment.

http://bugs.debian.org/226078
http://bugs.debian.org/247134

Somebody feeling like appealing to the technical committee?

-- 
Lionel



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