clone 109691 -1 unmerge -1 reassign -1 sendmail tags -1 - moreinfo severity -1 normal retitle -1 postrm should not rm conffiles thanks
There *is* a bug in sendmail. The postrm rm's the conffiles on purge. It should not. The management of conffiles should be left up to dpkg. What happens: Install sendmail ... installs sendmail's conffiles Install sendmail-tls ... sendmail-tls now owns the conffiles Purge sendmail ... sendmail's postrm rm's the conffiles I am cloning this so that 109691 can still be used to track the allegation that dpkg sometimes purges conffiles that have been taken over by replacing packages. The thing is that every case of this phenomenon I have investigated can be attributed to a misbehaving postrm. Therefore, I am inclined to think that 109691 can be closed soon unless someone can prove that there really is a fault in dpkg. -- Thomas Hood
