Bug#1051577: iproute2: obsolete conffiles

From	Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#1051577: iproute2: obsolete conffiles
Date	2023-09-11 14:10 +0200
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On Mon, 11 Sept 2023 at 13:03, Daniel Gröber <dxld@darkboxed.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 08:32:10AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > > After upgrading to 6.5.0-1 adequate shows:
> > >
> > > adequate found packaging bugs
> > > -----------------------------
> > >
> > > iproute2: obsolete-conffile /etc/iproute2/rt_tables.d/README
> > > iproute2: obsolete-conffile /etc/iproute2/rt_protos.d/README
> > > iproute2: obsolete-conffile /etc/iproute2/rt_protos
> > > iproute2: obsolete-conffile /etc/iproute2/rt_dsfield
> > > iproute2: obsolete-conffile /etc/iproute2/nl_protos
> > > iproute2: obsolete-conffile /etc/iproute2/ematch_map
> > > iproute2: obsolete-conffile /etc/iproute2/bpf_pinning
> >
> > There are a few more leftovers still present in 6.5.0-2:
> >
> > ,----
> > | $ adequate iproute2
> > | iproute2: obsolete-conffile /etc/iproute2/group
> > | iproute2: obsolete-conffile /etc/iproute2/rt_realms
> > | iproute2: obsolete-conffile /etc/iproute2/rt_scopes
> > | iproute2: obsolete-conffile /etc/iproute2/rt_tables
> > `----
> >
> > There are also the directories /etc/iproute2/rt_protos.d,
> > /etc/iproute2/rt_tables.d and /etc/iproute2 which are no longer shipped
> > in the package.  Unfortunately dpkg-maintscript-helper does not clean
> > those up automatically (see #584185).
>
> I want to question whether removing these conffiles is a good idea at
> all. I'm probably one of the few people that actually muck around in there
> but it seems like this is going to break things for any users that do.
>
> Is it really sensible to move these files to /usr/lib in the standard
> Debian installation? It seems to me upstream only wants to better support
> /usr-only deployments without /etc:
>
>     commit 0a0a8f12fa1b03dd0ccbebf5f85209d1c8a0f580
>     Read configuration files from /etc and /usr
>
>     Add support for the so called "stateless" configuration pattern (read
>     from /etc, fall back to /usr), giving system administrators a way to
>     define local configuration without changing any distro-provided files.
>
>     In practice this means that each configuration file FOO is loaded
>     from /usr/lib/iproute2/FOO unless /etc/iproute2/FOO exists.
>
> So why not simply keep the conffiles in /etc for regular admins and let
> people that want to do image based deployments create /usr/lib/iproute2 if
> they want to override or remove /etc?

As far as I understand dpkg's conffile machinery should recognize if
you changed anything, and leave it in place. Upstream moved the
default ones to /usr, so we just follow what they do.

Thread

Bug#1051577: iproute2: obsolete conffiles gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> - 2023-09-10 01:00 +0200
  Bug#1051577: marked as done (iproute2: obsolete conffiles) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2023-09-10 23:20 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#1051577: iproute2: obsolete conffiles "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2023-09-11 08:40 +0200
  Bug#1051577: iproute2: obsolete conffiles Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2023-09-11 08:50 +0200
  Bug#1051577: marked as done (iproute2: obsolete conffiles) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2023-09-11 12:40 +0200
  Bug#1051577: iproute2: obsolete conffiles Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> - 2023-09-11 14:10 +0200
    Bug#1051577: iproute2: obsolete conffiles Daniel Gröber <dxld@darkboxed.org> - 2023-09-11 16:10 +0200
      Bug#1051577: iproute2: obsolete conffiles Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2023-09-12 23:20 +0200
    Bug#1051577: iproute2: obsolete conffiles Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2023-09-11 16:10 +0200
      Bug#1051577: iproute2: obsolete conffiles Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2023-09-12 23:20 +0200
  Bug#1051577: iproute2: obsolete conffiles Daniel Gröber <dxld@darkboxed.org> - 2023-09-11 14:10 +0200
  Bug#1051577: marked as done (iproute2: obsolete conffiles) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2023-09-16 21:20 +0200

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