On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 12:41:48 +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > Package: debian-policy > > Hello, > > the policy lacks guidelines on how to treat user-provided configuration > files during configuration purging in packages for programs that follow the > "stateless" paradigm (default in `/usr`, override in `/etc`). Should they be > removed? Should they be kept? > First, there seems to be some confusion on your part, the bug title says "conffiles" and the above seems to refer to non-conffile configuration files.
Second, policy 10.7.3 seems pretty clear to me that purge ought to remove the package's configuration files, whether they're conffiles or not. Cheers, Julien
