Bug#681962: libgtk-3-0: removal of libgtk-3-0 makes files disappear from libgtk-3-common

[Loïc Minier]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2012, Michael Biebl wrote:
> I can't find the original reason in the changelog / svn log anymore, but
> I *think* it was due to the cache files
> /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders and /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules which
> have long been moved elsewhere.
> 
> The relevant bug seems to be [1], Loïc possibly still remembers the details.
> 
> It seems to me, like we can safely drop those "rm -rf" calls from
> postrm. And if not, we should at least move those calls to
> libgtk2.0-common resp. libgtk-3-common which nowadays contains the
> config files from /etc.
> 
> 
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/388450

This rm -rf is much older than the changes for this bug, I've traced it
back in the SVN history to being *older* than 2.4.0-4 (Apr 2004!)

It was probably a big hammer to cleanup /etc/gtk-2.0 from generated
files like loaders as you suggest; this is probably long obsolete.

I suggest removing the rm -rf; the /etc files should all be conffiles at
this point; if this causes any issue, we can add a set of more targeted
rm-s.

-- 
Loïc Minier