On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 04:36:14PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Fri, 2023-05-12 at 14:27 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > I think at this point we can assume that most people who have hit the > > issue on upgrade will have cleaned things up manually by now, so I'd > > be inclined to close the bug and move on. > > > > Any objections? > > Well not a strong objection from my side, but I think typically most > people will rather simply not even notice that they have leftover > files, so they'll stay there forever unless cleaned up properly.
I understand that, and ideally I would love to keep things tidy. However, I'm afraid we might have missed our chance. At this point, nobody is going to be upgrading from 5.6.0-3, but from a more recent version of libvirt-daemon-system where the conffiles in question are already not considered part of the package. Note that these conffiles are not actually gone, they've just been migrated to the libvirt-daemon-system-sysv. So we can't simply delete them from the system without a version check, otherwise we'd break all sysvinit users. I can't think of a simple, reliable way to handle cleaning up under our current circumstances. Another thing to keep in mind is that we're likely going to move these conffiles *back* for trixie[1], or possibly move them to some newly-introduced packages. That's going to be tricky (ah!) already, and I'd rather not complicate things further by layering that work on top of some late cleanup code. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/libvirt-team/libvirt/-/merge_requests/169 -- Andrea Bolognani <e...@kiyuko.org> Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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