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Bug#1051577: iproute2: obsolete conffiles

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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?

--Daniel

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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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