* Sébastien Villemot <sebast...@debian.org> [250415 12:24]:
On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 15:06:32 +0100 Chris Hofstaedtler <z...@debian.org>
wrote:
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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.
The conffiles were actually removed from util-linux-extra in version
2.39.2-3 (commit 13ccd799bf43106).
So they both appear as obsolete, and associated to util-linux-extra.
They should be cleant using dpkg-maintscript-helper or its frontend in
dh_installdeb (with a util-linux-extra.maintscript file).
Please provide a patch for the util-linux(-extra) side, without
breaking the sysvinit/initscripts side.
Chris
