On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 08:15:47AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > I know now that that version in .maintscript is wrong and should have
> > been 0.76~, but unless it just so happened that you had 0.75 installed
> > already —with would be kind of weird— it shouldn't have an inpact.
> 
> Why would this be weird to have 0.75 installed? There was after all over
> a month between 0.75 and 0.76.
> 
> > Can you please check what went wrong in your case?  From what version
> > were you upgrading that you hit this bug?
> 
> I've upgrade this system regularly, so I indeed expect that I've updated
> to 0.75 and then upgraded to 0.76, so the cleanup routine was never run
> for me.

Oh, I somehow thought of having 0.75 installed and upgrading only now;
didn't think you could have noticed the stale conffile 3 years later,
sorry.


Anyway, how do you usually deal with this thing?  I believe one could
add an arbitrary extra rm_conffile line with a newer version, but that
would be quite arbitrary.

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