Bug#886389: dpkg: conffile marked as obsolete after being taken over by different package

[Fabio Fantoni]

Il 17/12/2021 03:49, Guillem Jover ha scritto:

Hi!

On Thu, 2021-12-16 at 11:53:06 +0100, Fabio Fantoni wrote:

Hi, I had the same issue when moving conffiles from one xapp package to
another (of the same source), I did a test also with rm_conffile but on
first upgrade remove the conffile of the new package remaining without the
file (very bad thing) so I keep it marked as obsolete (which is less worse).

If you use rm_conffile then the conffile will be removed, which is
definitely not what you'd want when taking over ownership from another
package.

Thanks for reply, rm_conffile was only a test I did trying to solve/workaround this "obsolete issue"

Having the conffile marked as obsolete in the database should at most
be untidy cruft, perhaps confusing to users, but the tools should all
handle that fine (otherwise they are buggy and should be fixed).

Some days ago I had to do another conffile move in xapp (package split to
solve a policy issue) e one also in freeipmi, I searched and asked on irc
for a solution to avoid the "obsolete conffile issue" but not found for now
:(

Or is there any other issue with these conffiles being marked as
obsolete that has not been reported?

For now I saw only "marked as obsolete" and not other issue, but if users want clean "obsolete" conffiles manually I suppose it become problematic (I don't know if there is also tools that do it "automatically").

Thanks,
Guillem

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