Bilal Akhtar wrote: > On 11/28/2010 03:04 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: >> >> I'm really not confident with considering /var/lib/* files as conffiles. > > FYI its /usr/lib/ . And the package does use those files as conffiles > (see the comment on the postrm file which I am removing in this NMU).
/me facepalms. That's even worse: Mindi is not supposed to modify things in /usr/lib (see FHS). Marking those "runtime created files" as conffiles, when they are not configuration files is just plain wrong. >> IMHO the correct solution for this particular bug is to force the removal >> of those files on purge so: differentiating remove from purge in postrm >> and removing the files in a non-blocking way. > > Since this is a configuration file, it would be removed on purge by dpkg > as its now recognized as a conffile by dpkg. Those are _not_ configuration files, I don't see any valid reason to consider them so. The point of conffiles is to handle maintainer and user configuration files updates, not to handle removal of left-overs in /usr/lib. >> Are you willing to prepare a new NMU implementing this ? > > I don't think so. Anyway, *thanks* a lot for the review! Well; we'll have to agree to disagree then. I will propose one with my solution. Cheers, OdyX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/icthpd$65...@dough.gmane.org
