found 983727 1.2.1-1
thanks

Hey David!

Thanks for the report.

On February 28, 2021 9:29:54 PM UTC, "David Prévot" <taf...@debian.org> wrote:
>Package: thinkfan
>Version: 1.2.1-3
>Severity: serious
>
>The “thinkfan Example Config File” currently shipped as
>/etc/thinkfan.yaml “is NOT a working config file that can just be
>copied” (quotes from the file itself).

Technically, neither was the old one ;)

>Pretending that “The new default configuration might not work for your
>system” in NEWS.Debian implies that it could work in some cases, but
>that does not seem to be the case at all.
>
>By installing /etc/thinkfan.yaml on systems with a working configuration
>in /etc/thinkfan.conf, the daemon simply fails to start (while simply
>removing the new /etc/thinkfan.yaml allow one to start it again).

Isn't the old one renamed to thinkfan.conf.dpkg-bak and thus not found?

>Please, ship the “thinkfan Example Config File” in
>/usr/share/doc/thinkfan/examples in order to not break existing
>configuration, especially since it can’t work as is anyway.

I'll look into this that weekend.

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