Hi! On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 12:32:04 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Dpkg maintainers, could you please have a look at this? I'm not sure if > this is a dpkg-maintscript-helper bug, or expected behavior that will > require bypassing dpkg-maintscript-helper to overcome.
> In initscripts 2.88dsf-42, a debhelper .maintscript rule has been added > which does: > > rm_conffile /etc/init.d/bootlogd 2.88dsf-42 initscripts > rm_conffile /etc/init.d/stop-bootlogd-single 2.88dsf-42 initscripts > rm_conffile /etc/init.d/stop-bootlogd 2.88dsf-42 initscripts > > In the maintainer scripts, this translates into rules such as: > > dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile /etc/init.d/bootlogd 2.88dsf-42 > initscripts -- "$@" > > I would expect dpkg-maintscript-helper to know that these conffiles are no > longer owned by the initscripts package, and therefore not remove them. Is > this a wrong assumption? Yes, while suboptimal, this is the current dpkg-maintscript-helper behavior, which is pretty basic and will not cover these kinds of corner cases. It could well be considered a bug, but then I think the script is a hack and a dead end, and I'm not really planning on wasting my time working on its logic, instead I'd rather spend it improving the native conffile support in dpkg proper. I might perhaps consider looking into reviewing and applying tested patches if someone wanted to provide them, but that's not a thrilling prospect either. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
