On 2018-01-05 10:44 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.19.0.4
> Severity: normal
>
> After switching from rxvt-unicode-256color to rxvt-unicode (see
> #848284), dpkg-query reports a conffile as obsolete:
>
> ,----
> | $ dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | grep obsolete$
> | [...]
> | /etc/X11/app-defaults/URxvt 7b221a2da49507e31f42e702791b085b obsolete
> | $ dpkg -S /etc/X11/app-defaults/URxvt
> | rxvt-unicode: /etc/X11/app-defaults/URxvt
> `----
>
> This is bogus since the file is shipped in the package, otherwise it
> would belong to rxvt-unicode-256color which was its previous owner.
Purging the rxvt-unicode-256color package helped, although that package
did not contain any files according to "dpkg -L" (I had already removed
but not purged it). Now the conffile is no longer reported as obsolete.
Cheers,
Sven
