Bug#1051577: iproute2: obsolete conffiles

From	Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#1051577: iproute2: obsolete conffiles
Date	2023-09-12 23:20 +0200
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On Mon, 11 Sept 2023 at 15:57, Daniel Gröber <dxld@darkboxed.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Luca,
>
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 01:06:06PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> Right. Think of an admin having to adjust these config files though:
> previously they could just `editor /etc/iproute2/rt_tables` and get on with
> things. Now anyone needing to do that will have to do a doubletake, figure
> out why /etc/iproute2 is missing, realize that it's at /usr/lib/iproute2
> now, copy that over and finally edit.
>
> Is that friction really warrented to cater to a specialized niche use-case?
>
> Please consider overriding upstream's decision here.

Yes, it is warranted, both because it's exactly the correct behaviour
for a package, and also because we are certainly not spending time and
resources to go against upstream choices, especially when they are the
right choices.

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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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