On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 12:11:55PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I don't think this (nice) new paradigm changes anything and do think > > that all types of configuration files should be treated the same. > > > I'd suggest to close this bug as 'wontfix'. > > If we do want to recommend removing those files, we shouldn't close this > bug as wontfix, since that's not particularly obvious from Policy at > present. Those files are not conffiles of the package, and we're not > entirely explicit that either they are configuration files of the package > (I think they are, but it feels useful to clearly say this) or that all > configuration files should be removed by the postrm script on purge (we > sort of say this, but not as clearly as we could, at least in a quick > check).
agreed. thanks for pointing this out.
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cheers,
Holger
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