On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 04:36:49PM +0100, Chris Baines wrote:
> I would be happy for you to file a bug as I am not that familiar with
> the Debian policy on this, and have little experience filing bugs.
Done. See http://bugs.debian.org/593628 and follow up to
593...@bugs.debian.org if you like.
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On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 14:36 +, The Fungi wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 02:24:51PM +, The Fungi wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 03:11:50PM +0100, Chris Baines wrote:
> > > Ok, that makes my work easier. Still surprising though, I thought
> > > the dpkg purge command was meant to as the
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 02:24:51PM +, The Fungi wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 03:11:50PM +0100, Chris Baines wrote:
> > Ok, that makes my work easier. Still surprising though, I thought
> > the dpkg purge command was meant to as the man page says "remove
> > everything". Obviously it cant do
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 03:11:50PM +0100, Chris Baines wrote:
> Ok, that makes my work easier. Still surprising though, I thought
> the dpkg purge command was meant to as the man page says "remove
> everything". Obviously it cant do this if the home directory is
> off limits.
If you can find where
Hi,
Chris Baines writes:
> Sorry for the ambiguous message subject, one of the packages I am
> building creates configuration files in the users home directory.
> However when I purge the package these files do not get deleted.
That is how a package should behave: the package manager must never
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 13:58 +, The Fungi wrote:
> Package scripts shouldn't ever mess directly with files in homedirs.
> It's fine that the packaged application itself may create user
> configuration and may even remove user configuration, but the
> packaging must not. It's simply a fact of lif
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Chris Baines wrote:
> Hello Mentors,
>
> Sorry for the ambiguous message subject, one of the packages I am
> building creates configuration files in the users home directory.
> However when I purge the package these files do not get deleted.
>
> Does anyone know wh
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 02:35:13PM +0100, Chris Baines wrote:
> Sorry for the ambiguous message subject, one of the packages I am
> building creates configuration files in the users home directory.
> However when I purge the package these files do not get deleted.
>
> Does anyone know where I can
Hello Mentors,
Sorry for the ambiguous message subject, one of the packages I am
building creates configuration files in the users home directory.
However when I purge the package these files do not get deleted.
Does anyone know where I can find the relevant Debian documentation
describing how t
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