Hi, I put that Delta on the latest Ubuntu (only changelog and the version in the rm_conffile differs - as it woudl when you pick on top of your latest version) and the result LGTM. Here FYI:
root@c:~# dpkg --status postfix | grep makedefs.out; ls -laF /etc/postfix/makedefs.out /usr/share/postfix/makedefs.out /etc/postfix/makedefs.out 109692331793570f2d0884efe222949b ls: cannot access '/usr/share/postfix/makedefs.out': No such file or directory -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480 May 9 12:51 /etc/postfix/makedefs.out root@c:~# apt install postfix Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: procmail postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap postfix-pcre postfix-lmdb postfix-sqlite sasl2-bin dovecot-common resolvconf postfix-cdb mail-reader postfix-doc The following packages will be upgraded: postfix 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 47 not upgraded. Need to get 1149 kB of archives. After this operation, 239 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ci-train-ppa-service/3415/ubuntu cosmic/main amd64 postfix amd64 3.3.0-1ubuntu2~test1 [1149 kB] Fetched 1149 kB in 1s (845 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 53910 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../postfix_3.3.0-1ubuntu2~test1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking postfix (3.3.0-1ubuntu2~test1) over (3.3.0-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for ufw (0.35-6) ... Processing triggers for systemd (239-7ubuntu7) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.4-2) ... Processing triggers for rsyslog (8.32.0-1ubuntu5) ... Setting up postfix (3.3.0-1ubuntu2~test1) ... Removing obsolete conffile /etc/postfix/makedefs.out ... Postfix (main.cf) configuration was not changed. If you need to make changes, edit /etc/postfix/main.cf (and others) as needed. To view Postfix configuration values, see postconf(1). After modifying main.cf, be sure to run 'service postfix reload'. Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.28-0ubuntu1) ... root@c:~# dpkg --status postfix | grep makedefs.out; ls -laF /etc/postfix/makedefs.out /usr/share/postfix/makedefs.out lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Sep 14 06:58 /etc/postfix/makedefs.out -> /usr/share/postfix/makedefs.out -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480 Sep 13 12:23 /usr/share/postfix/makedefs.out => No conffile anymore => Still reachable from the old path And even if one (for whatever odd reason) has modified the file it will be retained as usual. If I modify it before upgrade it will end up as Setting up postfix (3.3.0-1ubuntu2~test1) ... Obsolete conffile /etc/postfix/makedefs.out has been modified by you. Saving as /etc/postfix/makedefs.out.dpkg-bak . [...] dpkg --status postfix | grep makedefs.out; ls -laF /etc/postfix/makedefs.out* /usr/share/postfix/makedefs.out lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Sep 14 07:04 /etc/postfix/makedefs.out -> /usr/share/postfix/makedefs.out -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4488 Sep 14 07:04 /etc/postfix/makedefs.out.dpkg-bak -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480 Sep 13 12:23 /usr/share/postfix/makedefs.out -- Christian Ehrhardt Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd
