Bug#624586: Bug#618885: sasl2-bin: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)

2011-05-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: > That said, relocating it to outside of /etc is a Major Bad Idea, and I > very strongly recommend against it. Local configuration to move it > somewhere else is already provided, but you just have extreme amount of > application documentation and even certifi

Bug#624586: Bug#618885: sasl2-bin: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)

2011-05-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 01 May 2011, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Steve Langasek writes: > > > I don't think that /etc/shadow qualifies as a "configuration file", > > > either; I would call it "variable state information" (→ /var/lib), but > > > it lives in /et

Bug#624586: Bug#618885: sasl2-bin: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)

2011-05-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Russ Allbery wrote: > Steve Langasek writes: > > I don't think that /etc/shadow qualifies as a "configuration file", > > either; I would call it "variable state information" (→ /var/lib), but > > it lives in /etc because a) it has to be on the root filesystem, b) > > that's wh

Bug#624586: Bug#618885: sasl2-bin: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)

2011-04-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 03:49:26PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Steve Langasek writes: > > (If one wishes to argue that /etc/sasldb2 is not a configuration file, > > then it's also a policy violation for it to be under /etc.) > It's basically similar to /etc/shadow. I don't think that /etc/shad

Bug#624586: Bug#618885: sasl2-bin: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)

2011-04-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek writes: > (If one wishes to argue that /etc/sasldb2 is not a configuration file, > then it's also a policy violation for it to be under /etc.) It's basically similar to /etc/shadow. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#624586: Bug#618885: sasl2-bin: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)

2011-04-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:02:46PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Samstag, 30. April 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: > > 10.7.3: If the existence of a [configuration] file is required for the > > package to be sensibly configured it is the responsibility of the package > > maintainer to provide maint

Bug#624586: Bug#618885: sasl2-bin: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)

2011-04-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Steve, On Samstag, 30. April 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: > 10.7.3: If the existence of a [configuration] file is required for the > package to be sensibly configured it is the responsibility of the package > maintainer to provide maintainer scripts which correctly create, update and > maintain

Bug#624586: Bug#618885: sasl2-bin: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)

2011-04-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 05:15:09PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Freitag, 29. April 2011, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > Regardless, policy states the following in section 6.8: > > 5. The conffiles and any backup files (~-files, #*# files, %-files, > > .dpkg-{old,new,tmp}, etc.) are removed.