On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 00:02 +0000, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > Hi again Sam, > > 2012/2/6 Sam Morris <s...@robots.org.uk>: > > reopen 656997 > > thanks > > > > I found that when I upgraded to 1.7.3-6 the conffiles were not removed: > > [...] > > > > I think this is because dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile is only > > called in libogre-1.7.3.preinst; the man page says it should be called > > in the preinst, the postinst and the postrm scripts. > > Thanks for reopening. I am creating a new version, with new upstream > included, which hopefully it will be uploaded soon. I expect to fix > the issue now, and also remove the /etc/OGRE-1.7.3/plugins.cfg for the > version that it was shipped. > > ... > > > This may be complicated by the local version number's I've added to the > > package in order to rebuild it against Boost 1.48. I'm not going to > > remove the files in /etc for now in case you want me to test the upgrade > > process. > > Thanks for you help.
No problem. I looked into the conffile issue a bit further and I think that the dpkg-maintscript documentation needs to be changed. I filed <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658854> where you can find a brief description of the issue; in summary, I think you should set the 'lastversion' to 1.7.3-7~ in the next revision of the package (assuming that the next revision will be 1.7.3-7 of course). The existing documentation would suggest you use 1.7.3-6, but this causes the conffile removal code to be skipped in the case of a user rebuilding the package with a local version number: the user would be upgrading from 1.7.3-6local1, which is greater than 1.7.3-6 and therefore rm_conffile thinks that it doesn't need to do anything. Any possible (sane) local version number is guaranteed to be << 1.7.3-7~ however, and so that version number is safe to use when invoking rm_conffile. Regards, -- Sam Morris <https://robots.org.uk/> 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078
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