Hi Christoph, Thanks for replying.
I think this is deeply mistaken, as well as dangerous and irresponsible. Yes, I expect apt-purge to remove all system-level traces of a package - but never user-level data. If I apt-purge libreoffice, should I expect it to delete all my office files? If I apt-purge emacs, should I expect it to delete every file I've ever edited? Who do we need to speak to in order to persuade them to change this behaviour? (FWIW, I haven't lost any important data - thank goodness. But I think this is such a bad decision that it's worth making a fuss over it before someone does lose something important.) Kind regards, Geoffrey On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 12:40, Christoph Berg <m...@debian.org> wrote: > Re: Geoffrey Ferrari 2018-10-26 <CAAoeO9j+UkJ1eu-O=DU_W=p92sSxnVuyf85e= > ahbmpktaxa...@mail.gmail.com> > > Yesterday I ran: sudo apt-purge postgresql-10* > > > > This appears to have deleted my postgresql-10 data directory in > > /var/lib/postgresql/10... > > > > Is this expected behaviour? It seems highly undesirable. > > Hi Geoffrey, > > the difference between "apt remove" and "apt purge" is that the latter > is supposed to remove all traces of the package on the system, so it > works as intended. > > As this question keeps popping up from time to time, I'll see if we > can add a debconf question about removing the PGDATA directory on > purge. (Chances are it isn't possible, though.) > > Christoph >
