> Sure, I should have paid more attention, but I still think that we
shoudl try to protect users like me from themselves liek this, and at
least _ask_ before removing databases (and other data).
I think it shouldn't delete databases at all.
Asking is just another opportunity for the user to make
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 04:04:46PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Or on removal, something like "Removing this package will remove your
> > data in blahblah. Are you sure you want to continue?" or better yet
> > "Do you want to remove the data in blahblah? [Yes] [No]" -- so you
> > could uninstall
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Bill Allombert writes:
>
>> I tend to agree with you, but I think there is a more fundamental
>> issue: user-generated content should not be stored in /var and should
>> not created and removed by maintainer scripts. (In other word, clearly
>>
Jonathan Yu writes:
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Bill Allombert writes:
>>> I tend to agree with you, but I think there is a more fundamental
>>> issue: user-generated content should not be stored in /var and
>>> should not created and removed by maintainer scripts.
Bill Allombert writes:
> I tend to agree with you, but I think there is a more fundamental
> issue: user-generated content should not be stored in /var and should
> not created and removed by maintainer scripts. (In other word, clearly
> separated from automatically generated data like MTA queue
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 01:51:53PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.8.2.0
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Currently, policy is rather unclear on what to do with user-generated
> content, such as the content of databases, on purge. Afaics, the only
> cases that are mentio
On Fri, Jul 03 2009, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> Currently, policy is rather unclear on what to do with user-generated
> content, such as the content of databases, on purge. Afaics, the only
> cases that are mentioned are those of conffiles and log files (both of
> which are to be removed at purge).
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.2.0
Severity: wishlist
Currently, policy is rather unclear on what to do with user-generated
content, such as the content of databases, on purge. Afaics, the only
cases that are mentioned are those of conffiles and log files (both of
which are to be removed at
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