Bug#624586: Bug#618885: sasl2-bin: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:02:46PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Samstag, 30. April 2011, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > 10.7.3: If the existence of a [configuration] file is required for the
> > package to be sensibly configured it is the responsibility of the package
> > maintainer to provide maintainer scripts which correctly create, update and
> > maintain the file and remove it on purge.
> Thanks for this pointer!
> > So I don't think anything is actually missing in Policy?
> Hm, there is no link from 6.8 to 10(.7) - maybe that would be useful. 6.8
> misses files described in 10.6-10.8. If you don't think such a link would be
> useful, I guess this bug can be closed.
I don't think it's the right place for such a link; 6.8 describes the order
in which actions are taken to remove and purge packages. It says nothing
one way or the other about what actions the maintainer scripts are supposed
to take, it's obvious to me that you need to look elsewhere in policy for
this.
But I'm not closing the bug, I'll leave it for a policy maintainer to decide
on.
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