reopen 288063 thanks Hi,
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005, Jeremy S Bygott wrote: > 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! > [...] > echo "Not removing /etc/fetchmailrc (file provided by administrator)..." I completely agree with your reasoning, and /etc/fetchmailrc should simply be kept. Please do not prompt for its suppression, it will add complecity and bugs. (I'm reopening this bug.) Cheers, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>