Re: RFS: (RC bugfix, NMU) mindi
Bilal Akhtar wrote:
> On 11/28/2010 03:04 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
>>
>> I'm really not confident with considering /var/lib/* files as conffiles.
>
> FYI its /usr/lib/ . And the package does use those files as conffiles
> (see the comment on the postrm file which I am removing in this NMU).
/me facepalms. That's even worse: Mindi is not supposed to modify things in
/usr/lib (see FHS). Marking those "runtime created files" as conffiles, when
they are not configuration files is just plain wrong.
>> IMHO the correct solution for this particular bug is to force the removal
>> of those files on purge so: differentiating remove from purge in postrm
>> and removing the files in a non-blocking way.
>
> Since this is a configuration file, it would be removed on purge by dpkg
> as its now recognized as a conffile by dpkg.
Those are _not_ configuration files, I don't see any valid reason to
consider them so. The point of conffiles is to handle maintainer and user
configuration files updates, not to handle removal of left-overs in
/usr/lib.
>> Are you willing to prepare a new NMU implementing this ?
>
> I don't think so. Anyway, *thanks* a lot for the review!
Well; we'll have to agree to disagree then. I will propose one with my
solution.
Cheers,
OdyX
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