RFC: amandment to policy (was: purging - what should be deleted ?)
Hello dear Policy'tians !
I propose to include something like to following sentence into the next
version of the Policy or the packaging-manual to clearify the situation
below since the actual policy only speaks of config files but not of
e.g. news articles (from INN), or cached files (squid/wwwoffle) etc.
"When purging a package every file and directory that the package owns
should be deleted.
A package owns a file if either it is distributed with this package or
created by a program which was distributed with this package. Also the file
must be in a directory which is owned by this package (i.e. not /home/*)."
read you,
-christian-
On Sat, 17.04.99 18:25 -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > I wonder what should be deleted when purging ?
> > a) only the config files
> > b) config files and empty directories
> > c) every directory INCLUDING files that the user may have installed
> > (since without the package those files are useless)
> > d) config files and empty config-directores and non-config-directories
> > even if they include users' data.
> My theory is that a package should not delete anything it doesn't own.
...
> A package owns files it creates.
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