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

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:45:56PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> 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

I agree.  Should be fine, as long as it defaults to no.

> and so piuparts would still be not
> happy.

This is too critical.  We can't compromise on it just for the sake of
making piuparts happy.  Hopefully a debconf template will satisfy most
users.

-- 
Robert Millan

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