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Re: Runtime directories: in package or by scripts?



On 10.03.2013 13:53, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 04:47:42PM +0400, Игорь Пашев wrote:
>>>> What is the best way to ship such a diretory:
>>>> in package (d/foo.dirs) or create in postinst script?
>>> Why postinst?
>>
>> Because on removal there will be a message "cannot remove directory",
>> if there are file in that directory.
> Purge them too.

Or leave it alone and ignore the dpkg warning, if you consider the data
is user contributed. Think of the SQL database use case which preserves
database data.

Most of them are using debconf to ask the user whether the data shall be
removed. That might, or might not overkill for your package.


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