Re: Package Configuration

[Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Chris Baines <cbaines8@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Mentors,
>
> Sorry for the ambiguous message subject, one of the packages I am
> building creates configuration files in the users home directory.
> However when I purge the package these files do not get deleted.
>
> Does anyone know where I can find the relevant Debian documentation
> describing how to setup the package so that it behaves as expected? Does
> anyone know of any packages with this kind of setup so I can have an
> example to work off?

Others will correct me if I am wrong, I believe (policy states?) that
the home directory is "off limits" when purging packages. That is, the
files/directories created aren't config files, per se.

HTH,

-matt zagrabelny