[Pkg-mailman-hackers] What to remove on purge

[Joost van Baal]

Hi,

On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:55:54PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> 
> I've just fixed mailman to be able to be cleanly purged again on a default 
> install, but wondered the following: mailman currently does not purge cleanly 
> if you have mailinglists and/or archives.
> 
> To me it would make sense to just rm -rf /var/lib/mailman on purge. The user 
> has said (s)he doesn't want mailman anymore, so keeping any lists or archives 
> does not seem useful or expected to me. If the user wanted to keep such stuff 
> (s)he would have just removed the package.
> 
> What do you think? rm -rf /var/lib/mailman on purge or not?

rm -rf sounds sane to me.

(I vaguely remember a similar discussion about what to do on purge of
database packages.  Don't remember the outcome of the discussion
though...)

Bye,

Joost

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Joost van Baal                            http://abramowitz.uvt.nl/
                                                 Tilburg University
j.e.vanbaal at uvt.nl                                  The Netherlands
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