Le mardi 15 avril 2025 à 19:28 +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler a écrit : > * Sébastien Villemot <sebast...@debian.org> [250415 12:24]: > > On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 15:06:32 +0100 Chris Hofstaedtler <z...@debian.org> > > wrote: > > > 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. > > > > 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.
I’m not sure to understand what you mean. The sysvinit/initscripts side is already broken on fresh Debian installs, since the corresponding conffiles are not provided by any package. So I think there are only two proper ways of fixing this issue: – either reinstate the sysvinit/initscripts files in the util-linux- extra package (at least until the next release cycle) – or clean the obsolete conffiles (but that will obviously break sysvinit on upgraded systems as well) Best wishes, -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Sébastien Villemot ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://sebastien.villemot.name ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ https://www.debian.org
