Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Qui, 26 Nov 2009, "Lucas B. Cohen" wrote:
>> Is it considered acceptable for a package to blindly delete, then >> recreate its entire directory under /usr/share/doc upon installation or >> upgrade ? > > Why exactly do you want to do that? What do you want to achieve? > I'm triaging bugs opened against the Bacula package, and a patch has been submitted to a .preinst file that can swipe /usr/share/doc/bacula during upgrades. I'm wondering if I need to take extend the patch to take care and conditionally backup this directory (in case for example a sysadmin has stored his personal documentation in there). Granted, for those who will look, that it is quite improbable in the case of this specific package. -- Lucas B. Cohen "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." Edgar W. Dijkstra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
