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