Hi, Policy requires that a package remove any configuration files (not conffiles) that a maintainer script created when it is purged. However, if a user has added configuration files (e.g. because the program reads any file in /etc/$progname/ that corresponds to some naming scheme), the package should not remove them, right?
So is it then required that a package check wether the configuration file it is about to remove still looks like the one it once created - perhaps with small user changes? It might be that the file it created now is called package-orig.wrongextension and $progname.conf has been created by the user from scratch. TIA, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
