Package: collectd Version: 4.10.1-2.1 Severity: critical Recently I "apt-get remove collectd-core" and manually installed collectd for its git repo. Later, I found that /etc/collection.conf was still around, so I did "dpkg -P collectd-core". To my surprise, I found that collectd-core's postrm purge script deletes, WITHOUT ANY PROMPTING OR WARNING, all my rrd databases and collectd configuration.
This is *not cool*. I suppose it's reasonable to clean up /var/lib after oneself, but collectd-core should follow the example of RDBMSs and ask the user (via debconf) for confirmation before doing so. PS: actually the purge postrm failed in my case, I think because some of the RRDs were still open by the collectd process. But it's definitely deleted all my /var/lib/collectd/rrd_YYYY-MM-DD.sq backups. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
