[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#525852: Bug#525852: postrm will remove files owned by puppetmaster on purge

[Micah Anderson]

* Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar at mathi.uni-heidelberg.de> [2009-04-27 10:33-0400]:
> Package: puppet
> Version: 0.24.5-3
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Puppet will rm -rf /var/lib/puppet on purge.  But this directory may
> contain files created by puppetmaster (e.g. the CA certificates) which
> should not be removed when puppet (and not puppetmaster) is purged.

Hi,

Its impossible to remove the puppet package, without also removing the
puppetmaster package. Puppetmaster depends heavily on the libraries that
are included in the puppet package.

micah