On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 08:05:31AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Yes, there is. At installation time you can ask in the configure script > whether the databases should be deleted on a purge.
While, in principle, a good idea -- at install time I don't have a clue as to whether I am going to want to purge the data when I purge the package three years later. I do really think what's needed for this is a question in postrm. > If you set this as default and make the question low priority users who > are not have set debconf to expert mode will not even see the question > and will go with the default behaviour which is leaving the data > untouched (except they tweak the config file manually afterwards at > their own risk). That makes good sense and is probably a good compromise given the situation. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
