cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) skrev: > On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Steffen Joeris wrote: ... >> I would consider this as a violation of the debian policy, because it adds >> (without noticing) ldap data which no admin would expect while installing >> it and > > wethere this breaks debian-policy is dependend on wether you mess with > configuration files of other packages, as long as you don't do that it's > not only allowed but fairly common to add configuration. > > (just check the number of *.d directories under /etc/, as madduck said in > his fosdem talk, I think the .d stands for debian :) > >> it gets not removed during a purge. > > If it's purely configuration of the package then it should be removed on > purge, afterall that's what purge is for. > > If on the other hand we're also talking about other data then a lot packages > seem to handle this by adding a low priority debconf question about wether > or not to remove the data on purge (e.g. newservers ask wether to delete > the news-archive, database-servers ask wether to delete the databases, ...)
I think maybe if you add a schema to slapd.conf, then add some data using this new schema, then removes the schema definition, without removing data, you might end up with a useless database (not sure, I don't think I have ever tested this...) -- Finn-Arne Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bzz.no/ EE2A71C6403A3D191FCDC043006F1215062E6642 062E6642 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
