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I have written a publishing feature which creates some site columns, a content type referring these site columns, a master page and some page layouts.
When I deactivate this feature, the site columns, the master page and the page layouts are not getting deleted from their gallery.
What am I doing wrong here?
Should I be writing an event handler for deleting these files? Shoudnt the deactivation take care of it out of the box?
SharePoint will never remove any artifacts of a type which potentially could cause a user to loose data/changes as part of deactivation of a feature. A user could have used/changed your site column of contenttype and she could have customized the masterpage or page layout.
This non removal is in effect even though the user didn’t make any use/change of the artifacts. Which is good because then if you’re sure you want to remove them then you can always do it in a feature receiver and don’t have to check is SP removed them.