Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2010-01-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Don Armstrong writes: > On Mon, 04 Jan 2010, Holger Levsen wrote: >> On Montag, 4. Januar 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> * It's sometimes necessary to purge a package and reinstall it to >>> fix some weird problem, or if not necessary at least expedient. >>> For example, if one accidentally de

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2010-01-04 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 04 Jan 2010, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Montag, 4. Januar 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > > * It's sometimes necessary to purge a package and reinstall it to > > fix some weird problem, or if not necessary at least expedient. > > For example, if one accidentally deletes a configuration file,

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2010-01-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 4. Januar 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > There are several arguments that say that such data shouldn't be deleted > on purge. I don't know how persuasive they are. I'll answer them in reverse order :-) > * Whether it makes sense given Debian semantics or not, users just don't > ex

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2010-01-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Holger Levsen writes: > Well, I think about changing my mind here. In the past, piuparts has > indeed ignored eg the non-removal of the ldap database on purge. But now > I wonder, why should this be done. Unix has a tradition to allow you to > shot into your foot and if you do a purge of a packag

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2010-01-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 4. Januar 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> and what the requirements of a package are around preserving or > >> removing its data other than log files and configuration files on > >> purge? If so, that would be the relevant place to talk about whether > >> or not directories like /va

Re: "all" or "any" as Dependency Qualifiers

2010-01-04 Thread Jonathan Yu
Russ, Thanks very much for the thoughtful explanation. I'm glad that there will be a warning in the next release so that we realize it's a bad idea :) Cheers, Jonathan On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonathan Yu writes: > >> This is a stupid idea, and I don't know any c

Bug#561952: developers-reference: Section 4.6.3 - please document new source package formats "3.0 (quilt)" and "3.0 (native)"

2010-01-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 04 Jan 2010, Tommi Vainikainen wrote: > Raphael Hertzog writes: > > Right, thanks for the reminder. I did not use your patch. You'll find > > attached the patch that I committed. Please review and do not hesitate to > > spot mistakes. > > Looks good, but there was one spelling mistake "mu