Bug#527068: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8)

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Freitag, den 26.06.2009, 18:19 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 02:29:47PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > Hi Felix,
> > 
> > On Mittwoch, 27. Mai 2009, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> > > We could remove the `ascii.pf2' and so only break the graphical terminal
> > > on a package purge, but I don't think it would be good to remove the
> > > whole /boot/grub. Maybe people want to purge the package but still wants
> > > to have a working grub2.
> > 
> > Huh, they remove, even purge the grub-pc package and still expect it to be 
> > working? If I remove apache, I dont expect the webserver to be still working.
> > 
> > I dont understand ;-)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Apache doesn't install to your MBR.  As long as GRUB is in MBR, user will
> expect it to work.  We can't wipe out files that are critical to its boot
> process because it's not something that every user will expect.  So the
> only option is to be on the safe side.
> 

Maybe we could add a debconf prompt on purge to clear all grub2 files
from /boot/grub.
But I think that should default to no and so piuparts would still be not
happy.

-- 
Felix Zielcke