On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 at 12:42:06 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > There is indeed no support for this. > Taking over a conffile from another package is a tricky business and ideally > would have native support by dpkg. > > In systemd we used > https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/commit/d6483013d5779d4d465a1e174e44a754b941d0e6 > for systemd-timesyncd.
In policykit-1, at least we don't have to handle the case where the conffile is intentionally removed, because policykit-1 Depends on polkitd, so things are a little simpler than what happens in systemd where upgrades will not always install systemd-timesyncd. smcv