On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 08:01:04AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> 
> The recent upgrade did not deal with obsolete conffiles properly.
> Please use the dpkg-maintscript-helper support provided by
> dh_installdeb to remove these obsolete conffiles on upgrade.
> 
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files
> https://manpages.debian.org/man/1/dh_installdeb
> 
> This bug report brought to you by adequate:
> 
> http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2013/02/23/inadequate-software/
> 
> $ pkg=libgssapi-krb5-2 ; adequate $pkg ; dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' 
> $pkg | grep obsolete
> libgssapi-krb5-2:amd64: obsolete-conffile /etc/gss/mech.d/README
>  /etc/gss/mech.d/README 27e753ba1dc72900d2892b8efef6e35e obsolete

How is this not a dup of #868121 (with additional discussion linked
therefrom)?

-Ben

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