Re: How to properly drop an obsolete directory from a package

2019-08-31 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:19:43 +0200 Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Friday, 23 August 2019 23:04:30 CEST Francesco Poli wrote: > > Please take into account that the postrm script, when called with the > > "purge" argument, removes the directory, along with all its content, > > with the following

Re: How to properly drop an obsolete directory from a package

2019-08-30 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday, 23 August 2019 23:04:30 CEST Francesco Poli wrote: > Please take into account that the postrm script, when called with the > "purge" argument, removes the directory, along with all its content, > with the following command: > > rm -rf /var/cache/apt-listbugs/ > > Should this

How to properly drop an obsolete directory from a package

2019-08-23 Thread Francesco Poli
Hello Debian mentors, I have a simple (or maybe not so simple) question I have not been able to find documentation about. I am the maintainer of the apt-listbugs package. In some remote past (before year 2008), the program used to download some indices which were stored in