I agree this doesn't have to be a conffile.
Maybe we should move the next one we generate to the sharedir we already
have?
The following (untested) should do what is needed to also get rid of the
old file.
Let me know what you think about that
>From bfa8b73bcf4d1127f534828581212b350cdf613b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrha...@canonical.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:24:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] make makedefs.out no more be a conffile
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrha...@canonical.com>
---
debian/changelog | 6 ++++++
debian/postfix.maintscript | 2 ++
debian/rules | 2 +-
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 debian/postfix.maintscript
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index cfbe1683..fd2c3b45 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+postfix (3.2.4-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * make makedefs.out no more be a conffile Closes: #908545
+
+ -- Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrha...@canonical.com> Thu, 13 Sep
2018 14:23:22 +0200
+
postfix (3.2.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium
[Wietse Venema]
diff --git a/debian/postfix.maintscript b/debian/postfix.maintscript
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7a81ec99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/postfix.maintscript
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# moved to sharedir to not bother users with conffile prompts
+rm_conffile /etc/postfix/makedefs.out 3.2.4-2~ postfix
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 59ca3d7d..a6a3bb20 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ install-arch: build-arch
ln -s ../sbin/sendmail $(bindir)/mailq
ln -s ../sbin/sendmail ${base}/usr/lib/sendmail
install -m 0755 conf/postfix-script conf/post-install $(confdir)
- install -m 0644 conf/makedefs.out $(confdir)
+ install -m 0644 conf/makedefs.out $(sharedir)
install -m 0644 debian/functions $(sharedir)/postinst.functions
install -m 0644 conf/master.cf $(sharedir)/master.cf.dist
install -m 0644 conf/main.cf.dist $(sharedir)/main.cf.dist
--
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