Bug#645849: obsolete conffiles not removed on upgrades

2011-10-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
retitle 645849 dpkg should better manage the Conffiles field thanks On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 05:53:55AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Package: console-setup Version: 1.73 Severity: important While doing a test-upgrade from squeeze to sid, the

Bug#645849: obsolete conffiles not removed on upgrades

2011-10-31 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 08:49:42AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Well, dpkg certainly handles conffiles moving from one package to the other if you use the proper Replaces field like for any other file. Currently console-setup-linux doesn't Replace console-setup. If this was the real cause

Bug#645849: obsolete conffiles not removed on upgrades

2011-10-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Anton Zinoviev wrote: Currently console-setup-linux doesn't Replace console-setup. But it conflicts with old version of it, so it's enough to take over the conffile since at no point in time is the conffile owned by 2 packages. An obsolete conffile can always be taken over

Bug#645849: obsolete conffiles not removed on upgrades

2011-10-19 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 05:53:55AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Package: console-setup Version: 1.73 Severity: important While doing a test-upgrade from squeeze to sid, the following conffiles were not cleaned up during the upgrade and marked as obsolete in the dpkg status file:

Bug#645849: obsolete conffiles not removed on upgrades

2011-10-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: console-setup Version: 1.73 Severity: important While doing a test-upgrade from squeeze to sid, the following conffiles were not cleaned up during the upgrade and marked as obsolete in the dpkg status file: Conffiles: /etc/console-setup/remap.inc 775b76c6c04cd18f8c72563e413a36aa