Package: udev Version: 255.5-1 Followup-For: Bug #978607 X-Debbugs-Cc: j...@joshtriplett.org
Luca Bocassi wrote: > On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 21:59:22 -0800 Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> > wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 14:56:42 -0800 Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> > > wrote: > > > It looks like those files are installed upstream by the > > > install-sysconfdir option, which also controls the installation of empty > > > .d directories and similar, and I think we want to keep the latter. I've > > > filed https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/18112 about the > > > possibility of splitting that option. > > > > I wrote a patch upstream, which has now been merged. Once that patch is > > in Debian (whether backported or by shipping a new upstream version), > > it'll just require setting install-sysconfdir=no-samples. > > Unfortunately it's not that simple, due to dpkg's idiosyncrasies, they > are "conffiles" so special handling is needed to remove them, with > postinst machinery and whatnot. If you test this and send a MR on Salsa > I will review it, but I will not do the work myself. It turns out that dpkg-maintscript-helper isn't currently able to do this. The current `rm_conffile` removes unmodified conffiles but renames modified ones with a `.dpkg-bak` suffix. There's an open feature request, https://bugs.debian.org/1006655 , requesting an `rm_conffile_if_unmodified`. I think it'd be appropriate to wait on that, which would then make this fairly trivial. - Josh Triplett
