[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#830864: Bug#830864: torbrowser-launcher: delete downloaded torbrowser when uninstalling

[Holger Levsen]

control: severity -1 wishlist
control: tags -1 + wontfix

Hi u,

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:20:00AM +0000, u wrote:
> I've realized that when I run @apt remove --purge torbrowser-launcher@
> the downloaded files in ~/.local/share/torbrowser-launcher are not
> deleted. Which is expected: they are not listed in
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/torbrowser-launcher.list and are not part of the
> packaging itself.
 
no package removal ever should touch files in a users home directory. if
this happened, this would be a serious bug.

> However, when I uninstall I might actually want to get rid of the
> downloaded browser, history, bookmarks etc. or at least i'd like to know
> that I should/could delete/wipe this folder manually.

If you remove gimp or libreoffice, would you want/expect it to delete
all your documents too?

> This bug report is here simply to keep track of this issue.

I really don't see what could be done here, in this package. There is
no reliable way to show notes on package removal or purge and even if
there were, I'm not sure I wanted to display those notes by default (and
having them optional would defeat the purpose.)

But, there's another package which could be helpful here:
unburden-home-dir, though I'm not sure it supports torbrowser(-launcher) yet.

So instead of closing this bug should we maybe reassign this to
unburden-home-dir ?


-- 
cheers,
	Holger
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