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Bug#1036649: util-linux: leftover conffiles

From	Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#1036649: util-linux: leftover conffiles
Date	2025-04-15 12:30 +0200
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On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 15:06:32 +0100 Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>
wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + help
> 
> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 12:31:53AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer
wrote:
> > AFAICS, the two files are now contained in util-linux-extra (again
as
> > conffiles).
> > 
> > On a Debian sid system of mine (that I typically upgrade every day
- so
> > it got every version in between installed),... the files are in
fact
> > *only* registered as conffiles for util-linux-extra, and don't show
up
> > as obsoletes.
> [..]
> > So for some reason it's still registered to both as conffile.
> 
> I'll just quote Mark who worked on the change:
> 
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 Mark Hindley wrote:
> | It was a conscious decision (on my part) not to remove the
conffiles at this
> | stage. Whilst I accept this leaves cruft on systems that don't have
initscripts
> | installed, it has the benefit that user modified conffiles are
preserved during
> | the transition to bin:initscripts, as required by the Policy.
> | 
> | I think this cleanup can happen saftely in the Forky release cycle.
> | 
> | For reference, the udev maintainers have recently tried this
cleanup at an
> | earlier stage and it has not been straightforward.
> 
> It is still unclear to me how to tell dpkg that the files moved
> between packages and it should not just delete them.

The conffiles were actually removed from util-linux-extra in version
2.39.2-3 (commit 13ccd799bf43106).

So they both appear as obsolete, and associated to util-linux-extra.

They should be cleant using dpkg-maintscript-helper or its frontend in
dh_installdeb (with a util-linux-extra.maintscript file).


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Bug#1036649: util-linux: leftover conffiles Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> - 2025-04-15 12:30 +0200
  Bug#1036649: util-linux: leftover conffiles Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2025-04-15 19:40 +0200
    Bug#1036649: util-linux: leftover conffiles Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> - 2025-04-22 11:00 +0200
      Bug#1036649: util-linux: leftover conffiles Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2025-04-22 15:10 +0200
        Bug#1053760: Bug#1036649: util-linux: leftover conffiles Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> - 2025-04-23 15:00 +0200

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