Bug#1006203: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1006203: polkitd: mishandled configuration ownership change from policykit-1 to polkitd

[Michael Biebl]

Am 21.02.22 um 12:21 schrieb Simon McVittie:

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On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 at 12:18:57 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:

The new polkit that trickled into Testing today apparently shuffled
ownership of 3 config files from policykit-1 to polkitd without using
dpkg-maintscript-helper.

I don't see anything in the dpkg-maintscript-helper man page about using
it when one package takes over another package's conffile, only about
using it when a conffile is removed (not the case here) or renamed (not
the case here). We don't want those conffiles to be removed or renamed
during upgrades, we just want polkitd to take over their ownership from
the transitional policykit-1 package.

Do you have a solution in mind for this? I'm open to suggestions.

There is indeed no support for this.


In systemd we used
https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/commit/d6483013d5779d4d465a1e174e44a754b941d0e6
for systemd-timesyncd.

This approach is not without caveats though.

Taking over a conffile from another package is a tricky business and ideally would have native support by dpkg.

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