Russ Allbery wrote:
> When one does that, people file bugs complaining that the package doesn't
> remove all of the data it generates on installation. :)
>
> [...] It's not a great solution, and I'm happy to change
> if someone else has a better idea.
Well, I think the real answer is that just
Russ Allbery wrote:
> As co-maintainer of one of the affected packages, I'm quite happy to go
> along with the general consensus, since I don't really care. There seemed
> to be a dislike of debconf questions in prerm and there was some precedent
> for asking this sort of question in postinst, so
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 02:35:59PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> When one does that, people file bugs complaining that the package doesn't
> remove all of the data it generates on installation. :)
there's a similar problem with logfiles too, and there have been quite
drawn out discussions in which
Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> BTW: Do you really even need to ask? Couldn't you just tell the admin,
> if you want to delete your data, run dropdb foo? There is a small, but
> certainly nonzero, risk of accidental deletion every time you ask. I
> imagine that risk increases if,
Henning Makholm wrote:
> It is at least conceivable for the postinst to actively store the
> reply in an appropriate file in /etc which the postrm later reads.
>
> Not that I think this would make much sense UI-wise anyhow.
Please, please don't do this! Consider what happens when the user
instal
Scripsit sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> i think it's kind of pointless to ask such a question at install time.
> because Debian Is Not A Registry(tm)
And supposedly debconf isn't one either :-)
> you have no guarantee that the debconf responses won't be nuked off
> before the package is remov
hi phillip,
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 01:08:57PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
> what's the common practise if a package gets purged and depends on
> user-supplied data in a database? In this case these are DNS zones (it's
> about `mydns-mysql'). Currently there is a Debconf question in postrm,
> which
Philipp Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> what's the common practise if a package gets purged and depends on
> user-supplied data in a database? In this case these are DNS zones (it's
> about `mydns-mysql'). Currently there is a Debconf question in postrm,
> which is definitely wrong because I ca
Philipp Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> what's the common practise if a package gets purged and depends on
> user-supplied data in a database? In this case these are DNS zones (it's
> about `mydns-mysql'). Currently there is a Debconf question in postrm,
> which is definitely wrong because I cann
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