Bug#698438: mediawiki-extensions old purge harmful for new packages

2013-01-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 03:49:36PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Josip Rodin wrote: > > this causes data loss if you switch to using the new packages without > > installing the new package[1], and then purge the useless old package > > without > > reading the postrm. > > Ee

Bug#698438: mediawiki-extensions old purge harmful for new packages

2013-01-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Josip Rodin wrote: > this causes data loss if you switch to using the new packages without > installing the new package[1], and then purge the useless old package without > reading the postrm. Eew. That’s definitely ugly and, possibly, supported. I guess we can’t just add a

Bug#698438: mediawiki-extensions old purge harmful for new packages

2013-01-18 Thread Josip Rodin
Package: mediawiki-extensions Version: 1.4 Hi, This old package has a postrm that does rm -rf /etc/mediawiki-extensions on purge. While this might have seemed like a good idea at the time, nowadays when the package is split into Depends: mediawiki-extensions-base, mediawiki-extensions-geshi, m