Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.2.0 Severity: wishlist Currently, policy is rather unclear on what to do with user-generated content, such as the content of databases, on purge. Afaics, the only cases that are mentioned are those of conffiles and log files (both of which are to be removed at purge).
I would argue that databses and such should NOT be removed on purge without asking the user explicitly The immediate cause of me filing this bug, was the apt-get upgrade I just did, which upgraded postgres-8.3 to postgres-8.4 on my system. However, postgres apparently doesn't automatically migrate the user data to the next version, but still postgress-8.3 was marked as candidate for autoremoval. When I autoremoved the packages (with --purge), I did't notice postgres-8.3 in the list, an I certainly didn't expect it to eat my databases without asking me first. Sure, I should have paid more attention, but I still think that we shoudl try to protect users like me from themselves liek this, and at least _ask_ before removing databases (and other data). Please let me know what you think, Bas. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-rc3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash debian-policy depends on no packages. debian-policy recommends no packages. Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: ii doc-base 0.9.3 utilities to manage online documen -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
