On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 at 20:10, Chris Hofstaedtler <z...@debian.org> wrote:
> Control: found -1 2.9.15.1-2 > > Hi, > > it appears this conffile handling problem is caused by a not good > enough attempt to move the old conffile /etc/cron.daily/5snort to > /etc/cron.daily/snort-common. > You are correct. > It would appear trivial to change this to use > dpkg-maintscript-helper mv_conffile instead. > Thank you for suggesting this, I was not aware of this. I have fixed the issue by using dpkg-maintscript-helper properly in the preinst/postinst/postrm. > Someone with enough interest in snort should probably just make this > change and upload it. > After preparing a new version of the package and testing it in a chroot with different upgrade scenarios, I have uploaded a new version to unstable fixing this issue (and some others I encountered along the way). Best regards Javier
