Package: release-notes Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello,
Attached is a patch which suggests cleaning up unused config files leftover from prior upgrades, the foo.dpkg-old and similar files, before starting the new upgrade. Regards, Karl -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled
diff --git a/en/upgrading.dbk b/en/upgrading.dbk index b04a58e2..77f275fd 100644 --- a/en/upgrading.dbk +++ b/en/upgrading.dbk @@ -301,6 +301,17 @@ $ apt-forktracer | sort It is a good idea to <link linkend="obsolete">remove obsolete packages</link> from your system before upgrading. </para> + <para> + A previous upgrade can have left unused copies of configuration + files; <link linkend="configuration-changes">old versions</link> + of configuration files, versions supplied by the package + maintainers, etc. Removing leftover files from previous upgrades, + before performing another upgrade, can avoid confusion. Find such + leftover files with: + </para> + <screen> +# find /etc -name '*.dpkg-*' + </screen> <section id="proposed-updates"> <title>The proposed-updates section</title>