Control: tags -1 + help On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 12:31:53AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > AFAICS, the two files are now contained in util-linux-extra (again as > conffiles). > > On a Debian sid system of mine (that I typically upgrade every day - so > it got every version in between installed),... the files are in fact > *only* registered as conffiles for util-linux-extra, and don't show up > as obsoletes. [..] > So for some reason it's still registered to both as conffile.
I'll just quote Mark who worked on the change: On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 Mark Hindley wrote: | It was a conscious decision (on my part) not to remove the conffiles at this | stage. Whilst I accept this leaves cruft on systems that don't have initscripts | installed, it has the benefit that user modified conffiles are preserved during | the transition to bin:initscripts, as required by the Policy. | | I think this cleanup can happen saftely in the Forky release cycle. | | For reference, the udev maintainers have recently tried this cleanup at an | earlier stage and it has not been straightforward. It is still unclear to me how to tell dpkg that the files moved between packages and it should not just delete them. Patches welcome. Chris
