Hi!
On Fri, 2018-01-05 at 10:55:50 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2018-01-05 10:44 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
> > Package: dpkg
> > Version: 1.19.0.4
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > After switching from rxvt-unicode-256color to rxvt-unicode (see
> > #848284), dpkg-query reports a conffile as obsolete:
> >
> > ,----
> > | $ dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | grep obsolete$
> > | [...]
> > | /etc/X11/app-defaults/URxvt 7b221a2da49507e31f42e702791b085b obsolete
> > | $ dpkg -S /etc/X11/app-defaults/URxvt
> > | rxvt-unicode: /etc/X11/app-defaults/URxvt
> > `----
> >
> > This is bogus since the file is shipped in the package, otherwise it
> > would belong to rxvt-unicode-256color which was its previous owner.
This does not show what package owned that obsolete entry, though. But
in principle that should have been rxvt-unicode-256color. Both packages
will have such conffiles listed in their Conffiles fields, but the old
one might have an obsolete entry, which will be ignored by dpkg for
most operations.
> Purging the rxvt-unicode-256color package helped, although that package
> did not contain any files according to "dpkg -L" (I had already removed
> but not purged it). Now the conffile is no longer reported as obsolete.
Was going to ask for the -s output for both packages, but it's too
late now. :) Well, barring reinstalling the older package.
Thanks,
Guillem
