Bug#618885: sasl2-bin: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)

[Roberto C. Sánchez]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:51:17AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Samstag, 23. April 2011, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > This is not a bug. 
> 
> Yeah, right. It's not a bug because you dont care about policy which says you 
> must purge the package on purge. 
> 
Yes well, I'm sure you would appreciate it if, for example, purging
postgresql also removed /var/lib/postgesql.  I would not appreciate it,
that much is for certain.  That is, unless I specifically told the
package that it was OK to do so.

But then again, I guess you decided not to read the rest of my email
where I point out that the adminitrator is *asked just such a question*
in the case of /etc/sasldb2.

> I'm glad most of the 18000 source packages respect policy.
> 
And this one does respect policy.  It is only when it cannot obtain an
answer from the admin on the disposition of /etc/sasldb2 that it errs on
the side of caution and leaves the file untouched.  The admin can always
trivially remove it later.  Restoring the file may not be so
straightforward.

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com
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