Bug#343384: /var/log/XFree86.0.log* are not removed upon purge.
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:40:29AM +0100, David Martínez Moreno wrote:
> El Miércoles, 14 de Diciembre de 2005 18:55, Dan Jacobson escribió:
> > Package: xfree86
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > I notice /var/log/XFree86.0.log* are not removed upon purge.
> > (Maybe xserver-xorg has this problem too?)
>
> As far as I can tell /var/log/whatever are not intended to be removed in any
> package removal.
There was a discussion about this on -devel fairly recently, but I don't
remember what the consensus was. AFAIK this hasn't been put in to policy
yet either.
I'm torn on this one myself, but I wouldn't mind removing the logs for X
since they're not as important as, say, mail server logs. Given that we
delete them ourselves every time you run the server, it might be best to
remove them.
On the other hand, as a general rule of thumb it's probably better to not
remove log files for any app, and I'd rather see policy codified this way.
Anyhow, I'll take a look at the -devel thread (David, if you want to look
at it too and tell me what you think) we can maybe use that to help decide
on a course of action.
- David Nusinow
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