Hi

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 03:45:36PM +0100, J S Bygott wrote:
> Package: harden-clients
> Version: 0.1.30
> Severity: normal
> 
> >From the sarge version (0.1.17) of harden-clients.config:
>     mkdir -p /var/lib/harden-clients
>     touch /var/lib/harden-clients/fetchmail
>     ...
>     touch /var/lib/harden-clients/fetchmail-ssl
> 
> But there is no clean-up!  When I purge the package, those files remain.
> This is a bug in the sarge version of harden-clients.
> 
> Now, I see that the changelog for 0.1.19 says:
>     * Fetchmail package now support ssl so removing those questions.
> 
> So new versions don't touch those files anymore.  But it would still be nice
> clean this up for users upgrading from sarge.  Maybe the postinst could do
> something like this?
> 
>     case "$1" in
>         configure)
>       # clean up behind versions < 0.1.19 (remove in etch+2)
>       rm -f /var/lib/harden-clients/fetchmail
>       rm -f /var/lib/harden-clients/fetchmail-ssl
>       rmdir /var/lib/harden-clients 2&> /dev/null
>       ...

Yes this seems like a good thing. Thanks a lot for the suggestion!

> Thank you.
> 
> It's a pity this won't make it into etch, otherwise you could remove it
> in etch+1 already!

I agree, but this will not be accepted. I'm sure of that.

Regards,

// Ola

> Best wishes,
> Jeremy
> 
> 
> 

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