Hi Guys: Sorry I've read all your emails but I'm a little slow on the uptake.
Last night I actually whipped something up that almost works with debconf in postrm script, and there seemed to be some precedent for doing this: http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2005/36/ "Purging Database Data? Philipp Kern wondered under which circumstances user-supplied data should be removed upon package removal. Joey Hess confirmed that using debconf during postrm purge is fine as long as the script checks whether debconf is installed and falls back to reasonable behaviour if it isn't." http://da2i.univ-lille1.fr/cgi-bin/man/man2html?debconf-devel+7 http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man7/debconf-devel.7.html "Note that if your package’s sole use of debconf is in the postrm, you should make your package’s postinst source /usr/share/debconf/confmodule, to give debconf a chance to load up your templates file into its database. Then the templates will be available when your package is being purged." This implies it's okay to have sole use of debconf be in postrm. http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg37547.html "If you use debconf, you should really ask that question when the package is removed, not when its conffiles are purged, though you may only want to delete the database files on purge. The rationale for this is that there is no mechanism in place to guarantee that a certain other package, in this instance debconf, is installed at purge time (though the assumption may be fairly safe). The least bad solution I can see is to ask at remove time, store the result outside of debconf (/etc/default) and kill the db on purge if requested." This also implies its okay to ask at remove time, whether on remove or purge. But the Debian Policy Manual seems definitive it is _not_ okay so I'll go with that: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-maintscriptprompt "Any necessary prompting should almost always be confined to the config or postinst script." (and postrm is not mentioned) Thx Misha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
