Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW: Do you really even need to ask? Couldn't you just tell the admin, > if you want to delete your data, run dropdb foo? There is a small, but > certainly nonzero, risk of accidental deletion every time you ask. I > imagine that risk increases if, e.g., the admin is having to read a > foreign language (English) which he doesn't know too well.
When one does that, people file bugs complaining that the package doesn't remove all of the data it generates on installation. :) As co-maintainer of one of the affected packages, I'm quite happy to go along with the general consensus, since I don't really care. There seemed to be a dislike of debconf questions in prerm and there was some precedent for asking this sort of question in postinst, so that's what I've currently gone with. It's not a great solution, and I'm happy to change if someone else has a better idea. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
