purging: what should be deleted ?

[Christian Hammers <ch@lathspell.westend.com>]

Hi !

I wonder what should be deleted when purging ?
a) only the config files 
b) config files and empty directories
c) every directory INCLUDING files that the user may have installed
   (since without the package those files are useless)
d) config files and empty config-directores and non-config-directories
   even if they include users' data.

I ask because a user of the wwwoffle package I maintain complained that
it has deleted his private.html which was installed in /etc/wwwoffle. 
This is correct. My script does a "rm -rf". But what about the huge
amount of data in /var/spool/wwwoffle ? Should I left that data ? 
It is not installed by the package...

read you,

  -christian-


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