Removal of user-edited configuration files?

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Hi,

Policy requires that a package remove any configuration files (not
conffiles) that a maintainer script created when it is purged. However,
if a user has added configuration files (e.g. because the program reads
any file in /etc/$progname/ that corresponds to some naming scheme), the
package should not remove them, right?

So is it then required that a package check wether the configuration
file it is about to remove still looks like the one it once created -
perhaps with small user changes? It might be that the file it created
now is called package-orig.wrongextension and $progname.conf has been
created by the user from scratch.

TIA, Frank


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Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie