Re: obsolete conffiles: s/may/should/

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 15:18:04 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> In policy section 10.7.3 Behavior, there is this sentence:
> 
>         Obsolete configuration files without local changes may be
>         removed by the package during upgrade.
> 
> I would like to suggest that "may" be replaced with "should".

That implies dpkg should do that too for conffiles, which it does not
currently, while I think I agree it should, and I also agree with
Ian's comment about needing to consider this carefully in:

  <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=330256#86>

I'd be happy to implement this for dpkg 1.17.x, if people do not see
any obvious downside.

Thanks,
Guillem