Frédéric Brière <fbri...@fbriere.net> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:13:03PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Conffiles are not automatically deleted on upgrade.  You have to remove

> It would appear that logcheck has shed many files over the years:

>   $ git log --summary master origin/1.2 -- rulefiles/linux/ | \
>       grep 'delete mode'

> What should be done about that?  These files are long gone, so we can't
> rely on dpkg to tell us whether they've been modified.  (And some of
> them have migrated to other packages.)  Should we just let them rot in
> place?

Do we have the md5 checksums of the last version that we shipped with the
package anywhere?  If we did, we could remove them if they matched.
Otherwise, I think we have to leave them to rot.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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