On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 07:01:11PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 24.06.2017 um 17:01 schrieb Simon McVittie: > > That doesn't solve the problem of the obsolete conffile breaking grub, > > though. > > Indeed not. But it answers the question whether init-select should be > NMUed in unstable.
I agree that that part of it is now moot. > > Should the grub maintainers edit the conffile in-place as > > suggested (a Policy violation), or delete it or move it out of the way > > (also a Policy violation), or is there some other escape route possible > > here? > > > > It occurs to me that asking the CTTE for advice might be useful: they'd > > probably find it a refreshing change to have a question that is not a > > request to choose one side of a heated dispute between developers :-) > > Since it's pretty obvious that init-select is supposed to be removed, I > wouldn't have a problem with simply forcefully removing the offending > init-select.cfg conffile (and it's probably safe to drop this migration > code after one release cycle. > > Asking the CTTE certainly doesn't hurt. I think I probably agree that removing the file is sensible, but my experience is that it's a good idea to have an unusual amount of review of unusual and difficult-to-undo conffile handling ideas: so I've written this up for the TC's consideration as https://bugs.debian.org/865929. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]