[Martin-Éric Racine]
> I disagree with the above conclusion that the bug is with
> the packages, since they include proper headers. As to the
> assumption that the files are obsolete, again, the packages
> provide them for a good reason so, no, they are not obsolete.
You can disagree all you want, but it is still a bug in those
packages. These packages have remove the files in question from their
package, and the only reason they linger behind is that the package
maintainer forgot to add a preinst fragment to remove the obsolete
conffile. The problem with makedev was fixed in version v 2.3.1-85
(#459677), and the problem wit sudo is still not fixed (#459681).
To get a complete list of obsolete files on your system, run
dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | grep obsolete
A workaround while you want for the fix in makedev and sudo is to just
remove the obsolete files.
The reason I added code to refuse to convert when such obsolete
scripts are found, is that I discovered wrong dependencies and there
was no way to get them fixed as the script was removed from the
package in question.
Happy hacking,
--
Petter Reinholdtsen
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