[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#288063: Reopen? /etc/fetchmailrc contains passwords

[Nico Golde]

Hi,
* Jeremy S Bygott <jeremy at jsbygott.fsnet.co.uk> [2005-10-05 14:29]:
> Hi, I see that Nico agreed with the bug report and wrote
> 
> 	you are right, it should be deleted. it will be fixed with
> 	the next upload.
> 
> But are we happy about this?  There is at least one reason why
> fetchmail ( <= 6.2.5-12sarge1 ) does not purge this file. The message
> in the postrm,
> 
>        "Not removing /etc/fetchmailrc ..."
> 
> is uninformative but does show that non-deletion was a deliberate
> decision by the postrm's author.  And in the changelog.Debian.gz for
> fetchmail (5.7.6-2) we read:
> 
>   * Remind user that /etc/fetchmailrc is not removed on package
>     purge (we don't provide it, after all...)
> 
> That seems to be a good and decisive reason!

[...] 
Ok, what about a message like:
echo "In the next step /etc/fetchmailrc will be removed, if 
      you have any important data in it, backup it and press 
      [RETURN]"

After pressing return the file will be removed.
Regards Nico
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