Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> writes: > On 2009-04-06 19:59 +0200, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I'm curious why it wasn't removed. /var/games is normally shipped in >> each of the packages that provides files in /var/games, so dpkg would >> normally remove it automatically once the last game was removed from >> the system. > But not if the game actually writes highscore files there. Those are > only removed on purge, at which point dpkg has already forgotten that > /var/games belonged to the package. Oh, aha, yes. That explains it. We'd then have a similar problem with any other /var directory that holds files mostly created at runtime and only deleted on purge, such as /var/log, except that the rest are always in existence. I don't see much real benefit in going out of our way to remove /var/games and it looks like it would be a bit annoying (at the least, require adding purge code to all games that put files in /var/games that would usually never be triggered). My inclination would be to say that this behavior is fine and perhaps we should officially bless it somewhere. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
