Bug#907313: Lack of guidelines on purging conffiles in stateless packages

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 12:41:48 +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote:

> Package: debian-policy
> 
> Hello,
> 
> the policy lacks guidelines on how to treat user-provided configuration
> files during configuration purging in packages for programs that follow the
> "stateless" paradigm (default in `/usr`, override in `/etc`). Should they be
> removed? Should they be kept?
> 
First, there seems to be some confusion on your part, the bug title says
"conffiles" and the above seems to refer to non-conffile configuration
files.

Second, policy 10.7.3 seems pretty clear to me that purge ought to
remove the package's configuration files, whether they're conffiles or
not.

Cheers,
Julien