Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: [email protected] Usertags: unblock
Hi, in #780432 we had: On 2015-03-13 22:13, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2015-03-13 21:44, Christian Kastner wrote: >> Furthermore, would you perhaps be willing to also accept a fix for >> #768229 (obsolete conffile removal)? If so, I'll provide an updated debdiff. > > Ack, please go ahead. Assuming the conffile removal is done by > debhelper's maintscript file, please consider it pre-approved as well > and include it. Well, even though this changed passed all my local tests safely [1], there are scenarios where this change leads to conffile breakage, see RC bug #781050. I researched this a bit and my impression is that there is yet no safe and trivial way to remove a conffile from a package A (where is has become obsolete) after it has been moved to another package B (but B might not be installed). See [2] and [3], for example. The attached debdiff drops debian/libcap2-bin.maintscript. This means that #768229 will have to be reopened, but I'd rather accept this wart than attempt any non-trivial solution this late in the freeze. The debdiff also contains a trivial and obvious fix for debian/watch, would that be OK? Regards, Christian [1] https://bugs.debian.org/780411#44 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/595112 [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/02/thrd2.html#00249
diff -Nru libcap2-2.24/debian/changelog libcap2-2.24/debian/changelog --- libcap2-2.24/debian/changelog 2015-03-14 02:36:27.000000000 +0100 +++ libcap2-2.24/debian/changelog 2015-03-29 15:10:08.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +libcap2 (1:2.24-8) unstable; urgency=medium + + * debian/libcap2-bin.maintscript: + - Drop, because using rm_conffile to clean up an obsolete conffile that + was moved to another package can lead to breakage, see: Closes: #781050 + * debian/watch: + - Drop stray empty opts= (invalid syntax breaks uscan checks) + + -- Christian Kastner <[email protected]> Sun, 29 Mar 2015 15:00:39 +0200 + libcap2 (1:2.24-7) unstable; urgency=medium * debian/libcap2-bin.maintscript: diff -Nru libcap2-2.24/debian/libcap2-bin.maintscript libcap2-2.24/debian/libcap2-bin.maintscript --- libcap2-2.24/debian/libcap2-bin.maintscript 2015-03-14 02:36:27.000000000 +0100 +++ libcap2-2.24/debian/libcap2-bin.maintscript 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -rm_conffile /etc/security/capability.conf 1:2.24-7~ libcap2-bin diff -Nru libcap2-2.24/debian/watch libcap2-2.24/debian/watch --- libcap2-2.24/debian/watch 2015-03-14 02:36:27.000000000 +0100 +++ libcap2-2.24/debian/watch 2015-03-29 15:10:08.000000000 +0200 @@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ # uncompressed tarball, and uscan currently does not have a mechanism to # implement this -opts=\ https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/libcap2/libcap-(.+).tar.xz
