Gioele Barabucci <[email protected]> writes: > is there a guideline on how to treat user-provided configuration files > during configuration purging in packages for programs that follow the > "stateless" paradigm (default in `/usr`, override in `/etc`)?
The short answer from a Policy perspective is no, I don't think we have any guidance about that. At first glance, I'm inclined to agree with you that override files in /etc shouldn't be removed, partly due to the reasons you stated and partly by reasoning from analogy with optional /etc/default files, which we historically haven't removed. However, I'm not convinced that's correct; I think there's an okay argument on the other side as well. If you feel like Policy should offer some guidance here (which seems like a reasonable request to me), feel free to open a bug against Policy. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
