On 03.09.2012 12:15, Guillem Jover wrote: [] > But then --control-path was intended only for read accesses for things > like dpkg-repack or dpkg-reconfigure, never for *removing* files from > the dpkg database. Removing such files from maintainer scripts is just > *wrong*, the correct solution is to force an upgrade to a transitional > package that does not contain conffiles/maintscripts.
The only question remains is how to force this upgrade. Yes that's the nice thing to do, but I don't have other ideas but to _depend_ on this transitional package. > This option is going to go away relatively soon (in deprecation time > terms); for 1.17.x I'm planning to make it issue warnings, something I > didn't do for 1.16.x because the new interfaces were introduced pretty A warning sent to /dev/null. Oh well. > late in the release cycle and as such only available pretty recently, > would have involved an annoying “transition”, and I didn't consider it > fair at that point. I was planning on removing it on 1.18.x, but it > might probably have to wait until 1.19.x. Since I implemented this dpkg-query usage for autofs for now, since for _now_ it is the only workable solution, and we only support upgrades to next release, I'll remove this whole thing for jessie. Does it make sense? Thanks, /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/504469d8.10...@msgid.tls.msk.ru