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

[Andrew Pollock]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:23:54PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Mathias Gug <mathiaz at ubuntu.com> writes:
> 
> > Correct. That was a difference implemented in Ubuntu as the result of the
> > package review to move puppet into main [1]. It turns out that the review
> > points back to Debian bug 484659 which was fixed later in Debian.
> 
> > [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/puppet/+bug/408297
> > [2]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=484659
> 
> Those appear to be templates created by the user in the process of
> building a Puppet configuration.  Those are not configuration files owned
> by a package, and should not be removed on package purge in my opinion.
> They're equivalent to additional logrotate rules written by the
> administrator in /etc/logrotate.d or additional xinetd configuration files
> put in /etc/xinetd.d, neither of which are removed on purge of the
> relevant packages.

I agree. It seems we have a fairly clear precedent here to try and be
consistent with.
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