Bug#288063: [pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#288063: Reopen? /etc/fetchmailrc contains passwords

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Loic Minier <lool at dooz.org> writes:

>         Hi,
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005, Nico Golde wrote:
>> :) Ok now we are at the beginning. I removed the rm -f 
>> statement and also the output (which was the initial reason 
>> for this bts together with the deletion).
>> etc/fetchmailrc will not be deleted in the future.
>
>  Please consider shipping a fetchmailrc in your package, it would help
>  people now it can be used, and would serve as a template for edition
>  and it would also shut up any future instances of this debate against
>  purging it!  :)

But then dpkg would pester the user about the file every time the
template in the deb changes, and at random times even without. Which I
absolutely hate.

If you want fetchmail to handle the file and be policy conform then I
think a better way would be to create the file in postinst, only if it
is missing, and remove the file on purge.

My 2c,
        Goswin