Package: fai
Version: 2.8.2
Severity: grave

In postrm, FAI does

  rm -rf /etc/fai ...

dpkg installs four files into /etc/fai. It is possible that the
maintainer drops additional files into this directory -- there is
nothing preventing him/her from doing so, the policy makes /etc the
"space of the administrator". If FAI gets purged, these files also
get deleted, which may cause fits of raving madness and suicide
attempts.

Please remove /etc/fai from the list of directories to delete
recursively in postrm. It is okay for postrm to remove files from
other parts of the filesystem, just not /etc.

In fact, since all four official files in /etc/fai are handled by
dpkg, it needs not be handled explicitly at all: dpkg will remove
those files on a purge, and also remove the directory if and only if
it is then empty.

Thanks for your consideration.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (98, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-cirrus
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages fai depends on:
ii  debootstrap                   0.2.45-0.2 Bootstrap a basic Debian system
pn  nfs-server                               Not found.
ii  perl [perl5]                  5.8.4-8    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

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