On 2024-10-19 11:02:56 +0200, Nis Martensen wrote: > `dpkg --status procps` on current sid now includes this line: > /etc/sysctl.conf 72b7c827a9636cda7b3b371091ff2dce remove-on-upgrade > > After running `apt install --reinstall procps` the corresponding line in > the `dpkg --status procps` output looks like this: > /etc/sysctl.conf newconffile remove-on-upgrade > > Does it mean the conffile will always be listed in the output as long as > it is listed in DEBIAN/conffiles, even if the «remove-on-upgrade» flag > has been present across several package upgrades? Or does the line only > not get dropped here because what I did was a reinstall and not an upgrade?
This line is also present after an upgrade: qaa:~> dpkg -s procps Package: procps Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: admin Installed-Size: 2395 Maintainer: Craig Small <csm...@debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Multi-Arch: foreign Version: 2:4.0.4-8 [...] Conffiles: /etc/sysctl.conf newconffile remove-on-upgrade /etc/init.d/procps f9903aa0d9f2f10714269befb4cdba8f /etc/sysctl.d/README.sysctl 93eda3f215e9d29316f5597cb4551082 [...] IMHO, this is a bug, whether the package has been reinstalled or upgraded. There is no point to output such a line for a conffile that definitively no longer exists. About this issue: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1085130 -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
