Hi Phillipp (and Christoph), Quoting Philipp Huebner (2022-01-15 12:51:53) > what you have reported here is a leftover of #895371 which only > happens on installations << 18.04-1, which is << oldstable a.k.a. > Stretch and older. > > I'm reluctant to address this since it does no harm and does not > affect any fresh installation on Debian >= 10.
I disagree: I think this still violates Debian Policy ยง 10.7.3 and therefore **does** harm, just only on long-time maintained systems. I think that a crude way to "solve" this issue might be to add a preinst script that checked if the file was registered as a conffile and then fail the install with an error message instructing the user to purge their too old incompatible installation and then install again from scratch. Slightly less crude (but still pretty crude) might be the above + adding a NEWS entry warning that migration from old releases is unsupported and requires purge before fresh install. Ideal would obviously be if there was a way to explicitly tell dpkg to stop treating a file as a conffile. I recommend to ask about this at debian-devel@l.d.o. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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