[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#571130: Bug#571130: puppet-common: Package purge should remove all puppet directories

[Russ Allbery]

Mathias Gug <mathiaz at ubuntu.com> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 04:16:29PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> This is arguably a Debian policy violation because it would delete any
>> other local administrator configuration files in /etc/puppet.

> Could you specify which portion of the Debian policy deals with
> configuration files created by the local administrator?

> Section 10.7.3 mentions:

>  * configuration files must be preserved when the package is removed,
>  and only deleted when the package is purged.

That's the arguable part.  I don't know of anything in Policy that
specifically says that you can't do this, but deleting files in /etc that
aren't owned by the package seems obviously contrary to the spirit of the
Policy rules around handling configuration files to me.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>