clone 470611 -1 reassign -1 debian-policy retitle -1 debian-policy: removal of old conffile should be allowed retitle 470611 lm-sensors: should remove old conffile /etc/modutils/i2c severity 470611 minor thanks
Frans Pop a écrit : > On Wednesday 12 March 2008, you wrote: >> That's because you had a previous version which shipped this file >> installed. It is not installed it newer installations. As this file is a >> conffile, you have to remove it manually. > > Sorry, but that is just not correct. > Obsolete conffiles should be removed by the maintainer scripts. > > See for example: > http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling Then, the policy is out of date. Cloning the bug. > In this case I think that it would be OK to remove the file even if the user > had modified it (which is extremely unlikely in this case). Reason: the > file cannot possibly have any function on the system if modutils is not > installed. > > Please check with, for example, Steve Langasek if you would like > confirmation (note: he may not necessarily agree with the last paragraph). > > Cheers, > FJP > > > -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
