On Sun, 10 Aug 2008, Tim Connors wrote:
> It seems /etc/logrotate.d/acpid was marked as a conffile from a previous
> version, and no postrm script has dealt with it now that it is no longer
> in the package. And pkill (apart from being a dangerous thing to use IMHO
> -- should be using pidfiles such as through start-stop-daemon or
> /etc/init.d/acpid reload)
>
> So without it using logrotate and without being able to handle SIGUSR1
> anymore, what is the accepted way of rotating any logs it will end up
> generating? Or does it not generate logs anymore?
>
> The incorrect handling of deprecated logrotate conffile scripts is
> probably a showstopper that will have to be fixed before lenny.
PS. Workaround for the guys who reported this bug is to remove
/etc/logrotate.d/acpid. I decided to purge whatever else might have been
left behind accidentally by running (no gaurantees this won't screw your
system :) Does aptitude/dpkg come with a cleaner way to purge obsolete
conffiles? This seems to be affecting me more and more recently. I
wonder if policy needs a change or whether packagers aren't following
policy related to conffiles anymore.
> dpkg --force-depends --purge acpid
> aptitude install acpid
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