On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]> wrote: > OTOH given procps no longer ships the conffile, it should also not > just leave an unowned conffile around. In this situation procps > should probably leave a .dpkg-bak file if the conffile was modified. > But this is also not the optimal result, as the file will not be > read 8-)
This is exactly what actually has happened on my system during the upgrade to trixie. > IMO the best option is to put good, tested advice into the release > notes and into NEWS.Debian of procps. Stable update for the > NEWS.Debian change should also be uncontroversial in my opinion. I think it is more important to publish the advice soon, than to have perfect advice. >From >https://salsa.debian.org/debian/procps/-/commit/77f54cb9d9951b193d2aaeb694e56061309eb3ef, it seems that, by default, /etc/sysctl.conf contained nothing except comments. So unless the handling of /etc/sysctl.conf during procps upgrades is going to be changed, I think it is sufficient to note that /etc/sysctl.conf will be removed (or renamed to disable it, if changed), /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf (compatibility symlink shipped by systemd) will also be removed, and that users who have modified their /etc/sysctl.conf are advised to copy their configuration to /etc/sysctl.conf.d/ (and possibly restore the default /etc/sysctl.conf, and reboot, so as to avoid potential issues with duplicating the configuration). Take this with a pinch of salt; I don't fully understand what I am writing about. --Samuel Plavec
