Fix pending as:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ntpsec/-/commit/ed7cf69b3c7ec6cc21a604e47fbf6ee9a9966117
Feedback welcome!
1. I brought back some of the (manual) postrm bits for the ntp &
ntpdate packages. This was something I should have preserved when
making the transitional packages.
ntpsec.service has ntp.service as an alias, so we do not mask
ntp.service.
I did not bring back the apparmor bits, as the apparmor profile
still exists in the ntpsec package.
I did not bring back the /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate removal in
ntpdate, as that was conditionalized on 1:4.2.8p12+dfsg-2~, so that
transition was completed in buster.
2. sntp needs to cleanup /var/lib/sntp because of /var/lib/sntp/kod.
This seems to be a pre-existing bug in the ntp package. (Though, if
it wasn't, I still would have missed it with everything else.)
3. The obsolete ntp & ntpdate conffiles need to be cleaned up. For
most, this is accomplished by listing them in PACKAGE.conffiles with
the "remove-on-upgrade" flag.
4. For /etc/default/ntp and /etc/ntp.conf, which are handled special in
ntpsec.preinst, I'm not sure if the "remove-on-upgrade" functionality
would even work; it seems like it would remove them too soon.
The dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile support seemed problematic
too...
If I run that in the ntpsec scripts (so I can get it to happen after
the special handling), I don't think it would work, as it checks that
the package in question owns the files, and in the ntp -> ntpsec
case, it does not.
If I run that in the ntp scripts, then it would run too early, so
I'd need to make ntpsec.preinst look at some backup file. I'm not
sure how much ordering is guaranteed between the ntp and ntpsec
maintainer scripts, so I might have to look at both the .dpkg-backup
and .dpkg-bak versions. It's also not clear to me whether I should
care about the original name.
Given that this already released in this state and I'm going to need
a stable release update to fix this, it seems I should be
conservative. Policy 10.7.3 says I "should" remove these during
upgrade, not that I "must".
Ultimately, I am leaving these two files alone during the upgrade
and removing them on purge of the ntp transitional package.
--
Richard
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