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

[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.

-- 
Robert Millan

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