On 2012-10-03 17:19, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 03 Oct 2012, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >> seems to work, also if the conffile gets replaced by an updated version >> on the way, but it leaves an old md5sum entry in the Conffiles entry of >> old-pkg in the status file. >> >> This causes subsequent debsums runs to report modified files (for a >> package which no longer owns the file). > > That entry in Conffiles is marked "obsolete" and as you point out, > the package is no longer owning the conffile (i.e. the file is no longer > listed in the output of dpkg -L). > > I believe that debsums should just ignore those entries.
FTR, debsums should not ignore *all* "obsolete" Conffiles entries (that would be trivial), but only those for files not longer "owned" by the package in question. I tried to look into debsums, but that seems to be a non-trivial change, as currently "dpkg -L" (or some equivalent) is a concept not used in debsums (it gets file lists from *.md5sums and Conffiles: fields). Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
