On 26/09/2021 19.06, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
Am So den 26. Sep 2021 um 17:58 schrieb Andreas Beckmann:
Thanks. You had modifications in nvidia-modprobe.conf, didn't try that
before.
Ehem, I don't think so... Never touched that file by hand.
You are probably right, dpkg just reported it as modified because it
didn't know anything about the file at the point where it was going to
remove it as obsolete conffile.
This was triggered by two bugs:
* debhelper (#994919) erroneously activated a new dpkg feature to remove
obsolete conffiles. This works fine for the trivial cases, but not here
where we replaced a conffile by an alternative to be able to select a
driver version specific one (while allowing several drivers to be
installed concurrntly).
* dpkg (#995387): the new remove-on-upgrade feature was removing (or
rather renaming to *.dpkg-old because it considered it as modified) the
target of a symlink, thus acting on a conffile owned by a different package
Luckily the conffile was still present as *.dpkg-old, so it is quite
easy to detect this error and move the conffile back ;-)
Luckily this only affects the main driver series, I was afraid all the
different variants would be affected as well, since the last uploads
were all built with the buggy debhelper version. But they would only
mishandle a nvidia-$VARIANT-modprobe.conf, which does not exist as an
alternative ;-)
Andreas
