Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> writes: > please read #618885 which is about whether sasl2-bin can kept files on > the system after purging it.
> Policy 6.8 says that files must be removed on purge, Roberto says > sasl2-bin is an exception. I disagree. I concur with Roberto in general. I don't think removing a user-generated authentication database on purge without some sort of prompt is acceptable given the risk of user data loss. To me, this is equivalent to removing the OpenLDAP database or the Kerberos KDC database, which have similar prompts and default to not removing the database on purge. However, in the specific case exercised by puiparts, this file would contain only automatically generated data from the sasl2-bin postinst. Could its postrm examine the file on purge and see whether it contains only the automatically-generated content created by the postinst, and if so, delete it without a prompt? This seems entirely safe to me provided that the logic works, and would resolve the puiparts issue without removing user data without prompting. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pqo5nggi....@windlord.stanford.edu
