On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 02:57:34PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > Package: base-files
> > Version: 6.11
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > base-files 6.8 had /etc/profile as a conffile. Thus, users who had
> > 6.8 installed and subsequently upgraded to a later version will have
> > /etc/profile marked as an obsolete conffile in the dpkg database:
> >
> > ~$ dpkg-query -f '${Conffiles}\n' -W base-files | grep obsolete
> > /etc/profile 91901ce5707909cfec8b3a1a6efbfa61 obsolete
>
> So what's the dpkg command that I can use in postinst to tell dpkg
> that this file is not really obsolete but just a configuration file
> which is not a conffile? Is there one such dpkg command?
Probably some dpkg-maintscript-helper invocation that doesn't exist yet.
You could copy the file aside, use rm_conffile, and restore it, but that
seems wrong (and error-prone).
> Or are you suggesting that I fiddle with dpkg database directly?
> (I hope not).
Definitely not.
> This seems more a dpkg bug/feature which affects base-files than
> a base-files bug to me.
I definitely agree that a bug exists in dpkg here, but nonetheless I
think base-files will need to clean up the result. However, given that
it only affects people with one specific version of base-files
installed, it doesn't seem like a high priority.
- Josh Triplett
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