Changes to postrm

[Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña]

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On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 09:52:01AM -0300, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote:
> Hi Javier,
>=20
> I don't really understand what you meant with your changes to postrm,
> that you complained I didn't include in -28, especially this one:
>=20
> find /etc/john -type f | xargs rm -f
>=20
> Is it necessary? Shouldn't dpkg handle this? =3DP

Not necessarily, specially if stuff was dropped in that location.
There are several reasons that can happen:

1.- The user did package upgrades but did not the new config files (they=20
were kept as .dpkg-dist)
2.- The user added new stuff (for example, he configured a wordlist and=20
placed it there)
3.- Some maintainer script went awry and let cruft.

The directories should be purged in order to avoid leaving things there so=
=20
dpkg can remove it.

Regards

Javier

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