[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#642494: Bug#642494: Doesn't remove /etc/lighttpd on purge

Nelson A. de Oliveira naoliv at debian.org
Fri Sep 23 12:25:31 UTC 2011


Hi Olaf!

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why do you think it should be removed?
> The user might've put conf files in those dirs. Even other packages
> might've put conf files there. We can't just remove them.

I see two cases here: if the user is only removing the package (and
not purging it), config files shouldn't be touched.
Now when purging the package yes, it shouldn't be a blind rm -r
/etc/lighttpd but at least it should remove it's own files/links (and
let the files that were created locally or by other means).
The example that I sent on the bug report fits on this second case:
there is no local file and the only link was created by
lighttpd-enable-mod itself.

Thank you!

Best regards,
Nelson





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