On 19.10.2024 05.58, Guillem Jover wrote: > Currently there might be entries for obsolete conffiles left behind, > but those will be "garbage collected" the next time a package is > configured and the conffiles are not on disk anymore.
Thanks. I'm wondering what "garbage collected" means here. So procps has removed /etc/sysctl.conf from the package and added the «remove-on-upgrade» flag to procps.conffiles. `dpkg --status procps` on current sid now includes this line: /etc/sysctl.conf 72b7c827a9636cda7b3b371091ff2dce remove-on-upgrade After running `apt install --reinstall procps` the corresponding line in the `dpkg --status procps` output looks like this: /etc/sysctl.conf newconffile remove-on-upgrade Does it mean the conffile will always be listed in the output as long as it is listed in DEBIAN/conffiles, even if the «remove-on-upgrade» flag has been present across several package upgrades? Or does the line only not get dropped here because what I did was a reinstall and not an upgrade? Thanks, Nis
