On 26/08/2018 03:52, Russ Allbery wrote:
Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it> writes:is there a guideline 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`)?The short answer from a Policy perspective is no, I don't think we have any guidance about that.
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If you feel like Policy should offer some guidance here (which seems like a reasonable request to me), feel free to open a bug against Policy.
Thank you Russ for the input. Here is the bug report for further discussion: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907313
Regards, -- Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>