Bug#1051577: iproute2: obsolete conffiles

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On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 01:06:06PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> 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.

Actually using rm_conffile is wrong.  This moves the file to
*.dpkg-bak.  However the expected behaviour is to keep them around
without renaming, just removed from the dpkg database.

Bastian

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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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