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

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

On Freitag, 24. Juli 2009, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Maybe we could add a debconf prompt on purge to clear all grub2 files
> from /boot/grub.

I think that would be sensible, then openldap packages do the same. (ask to 
purge the ldap database on purge and default to "no".)

I dont think this approach is sensible for all packages (=purge should 
purge..!), but for some it is.

> But I think that should default to no and so piuparts would still be not
> happy.

piuparts can be made happy by changing the piuparts source to ignore those 
files. this is done for quite some files.


regards,
	Holger

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