[DRE-maint] Bug#821087: gitlab: does not purge cleanly

Fri Jun 3 10:11:56 UTC 2016

On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:14:34 +0100 Julian Gilbey <jdg at debian.org> wrote:
> dpkg: warning: while removing gitlab, directory '/var/lib/gitlab/public' not empty so not removed
> 
> The uploads directory within public was the culprit.

It has the uploaded files or data. How does other packages handle user
created data?

> Also, the gitlab account is not removed, though this is not strictly
> necessary.
> 
> It does not purge the gitlab database content, though this may well be
> intentional.
> 

Similar to the case above, should be remove db contents on purge?

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