On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 05:24:41AM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > Yeah, that is a known limitation of dpkg. > > See also http://www.dpkg.org/dpkg/ConffileHandling
That document clearly says that dpkg does NOT remove old conffiles during upgrades, and describes the steps for maintainers to do so themselves using maintainer scripts. Does this mean that it is the maintainers' responsibility to get rid of old config files during an upgrade? If this is the case, could you please codify the rules somewhere? I am unable to think of a way to get over this problem easily, if dpkg does not want to remove old config files and the upgraded package disowns those config files. Maybe either dpkg or the package maintainers can make the package `own' the old conffiles? Just leaving them would not be the right way, as the piuparts install+upgrade+purge cleanliness requirement is a Lenny release goal, right? (Just my ideas, I am not too sure of all problems here). Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036
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