On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 04:04:46PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Or on removal, something like "Removing this package will remove your > > data in blahblah. Are you sure you want to continue?" or better yet > > "Do you want to remove the data in blahblah? [Yes] [No]" -- so you > > could uninstall the package while retaining your own data. > > This is what some packages currently do and is what Manoj was referring > to, I think. Personally, I consider this best practice.
it's a bit vague and doesn't differentiate between purge and removal, but: http://people.debian.org/~seanius/policy/dbapp-policy.html/ch-dbapps.html#s-installationissues there's also a bunch of other relevant stuff in there. perhaps it's time to review this and migrate it in to policy proper? or conversely if it's too domain-specific, policy could explicitly point to this seperate document. sean --
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