Bug#993753: debhelper: remove-on-upgrade in DEBIAN/conffiles is not equivalent to 'dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile' in maintscripts

2021-09-06 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi, On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 11:18 PM Niels Thykier wrote: > > It is not clear to me which part you believe is the bug The description for the Lintian tag conffile-is-not-in-package states that it is a packaging error to list a file in conffiles when no such file is shipped: "The conffiles

Bug#993753: debhelper: remove-on-upgrade in DEBIAN/conffiles is not equivalent to 'dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile' in maintscripts

2021-09-06 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo Felix Lechner: > Package: debhelper > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-lint-ma...@lists.debian.org > > Hi, > > The Lintian maintainers recently made several accommodations [1] for > some of the new features coming in Debhelper, but it is not clear from >

Bug#993753: debhelper: remove-on-upgrade in DEBIAN/conffiles is not equivalent to 'dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile' in maintscripts

2021-09-05 Thread Felix Lechner
Package: debhelper Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: debian-lint-ma...@lists.debian.org Hi, The Lintian maintainers recently made several accommodations [1] for some of the new features coming in Debhelper, but it is not clear from Lintian's own packaging efforts that the 'remove-on-upgrade'