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

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:

> 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.

I just looked at this, and I think that's the *intent*, but I don't think
we succeed in being quite as clear as we might have intended.  The key
sentence seems to be this one:

    configuration files must be preserved when the package is removed, and
    only deleted when the package is purged.

That doesn't quite say that configuration files must be deleted when the
package is purged, only that they *shouldn't* be deleted when the package
*isn't* purged.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>