Dear mentors,
I'm maintaining the yorick-* packages. The source package is split
into yorick, yorick-data and yorick-dev. The conffiles are in the -
data package. However, yorick.postrm removes these files upon --
purge. I guess I must have been slightly offset from my head when I
did this, but that's the situation in Etch.
I just noticed a problem if a user does:
aptitude install yorick (installs yorick and yorick-data)
aptitude remove yorick (removes yorick and yorick-data)
dpkg --purge yorick (deletes /etc/yorick/*, which actually belongs
to yorick-data)
aptitude install yorick (installs yorick and yorick-data)
When reinstalling yorick the conffiles are not installed! One needs
to purge y-data for these conffiles to get reinstalled.