Le Mon, May 06, 2013 at 03:18:04PM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > > In policy section 10.7.3 Behavior, there is this sentence: > > Obsolete configuration files without local changes may be > removed by the package during upgrade. > > I would like to suggest that "may" be replaced with "should".
Hi Paul, do we have an estimate (via piuparts ?) on how many packages are failing to do that ? It looks to me that the removal would happen only if the packages are following the advices of http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling (which now looks as simple as using dpkg-maintscript-helper via dh_installdeb). Maybe a few rounds of advocacy for the tools above could be done before making the recommendation a "SHOULD" statement ? By the way, I am not sure if "may" there is meant to be taken in the sense of RFC2119, as the writing style in 10.7.3 is quite casual. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
