Your message dated Sat, 14 May 2016 16:09:24 +0000
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and subject line closing & added to TODO…
has caused the Debian Bug report #561444,
regarding New test: install, remove configuration files, re-install, check that
configuration files don't re-appear
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Package: piuparts
Severity: wishlist
As per subject, I believe we have quite a few postinsts that think that
«no file» means «please reinstall original configuration file» and this
test should hopefully catch that.
The test should do the following:
- install package X
- remove any (or all?) configuration files belonging to package X, as
determined by a diff of when all its dependencies have been installed
and when the package itself is installed. Probably blacklist special
files like alternatives and rc.d links from this list.
- install package X again
- make sure the configuration files do not reappear.
However, this probably uncovers the need for something like dpkg's
--force-confmiss (for non-conffile configuration files) that can be
passed to dpkg or dpkg-reconfigure and that postinsts can respect.
That's something that should be put in policy though.
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Tollef Fog Heen
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Hi,
I'm closing these two bugs because of the reasons explained in
http://blog.liw.fi/posts/wishlist-bugs/ - in short: they clutter the
view and
nobody seems to be interested on working on these wishlist features.
But, I have also added references to these closed bugs in
piuparts.git/TODO so
should someone in future wants to work on these features, there will be
pointers to previous discussions.
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cheers,
Holger
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