Hi, * Jeremy S Bygott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-10-05 14:29]: > Hi, I see that Nico agreed with the bug report and wrote > > you are right, it should be deleted. it will be fixed with > the next upload. > > But are we happy about this? There is at least one reason why > fetchmail ( <= 6.2.5-12sarge1 ) does not purge this file. The message > in the postrm, > > "Not removing /etc/fetchmailrc ..." > > is uninformative but does show that non-deletion was a deliberate > decision by the postrm's author. And in the changelog.Debian.gz for > fetchmail (5.7.6-2) we read: > > * Remind user that /etc/fetchmailrc is not removed on package > purge (we don't provide it, after all...) > > That seems to be a good and decisive reason!
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Ok, what about a message like:
echo "In the next step /etc/fetchmailrc will be removed, if
you have any important data in it, backup it and press
[RETURN]"
After pressing return the file will be removed.
Regards Nico
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