Anthony Towns <[email protected]> writes: > The. Packages. Are. Not. Broken. It's that simple. How many times have you > found base-passwd recreating /etc/passwd and /etc/group a nuisance? Never? > Funny that. > > Why the fuck do we have to have a debate about this?
We don't; any behavior here is fine with me, as long as we document it. Manoj seems to think that the current policy doc implies the "must preserve deletions" behavior. (That was my original thought too, but I must admit, I don't much care.) I think, however, that the whole point of having a policy document is to accurately describe how Debian packages are supposed to work. We have to have a debate about it because there is an actual substantive disagreement between you and Manoj. If you don't think it's that important, then say so, and Manoj could put in a policy change to make explicit that deletions must be preserved. Thomas
