Bug#993531: lintian: doesn't know about conffile remove-on-upgrade tag
Hi, On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 11:03 AM Baptiste Beauplat wrote: > > There is currently only one flag supported, remove-on-upgrade Lintian's internal data structures currently hold only one value for each conffile (the name) and have to be modified. I am working on a solution. As for Lintian triggering the tag, I did not see it locally on bullseye. It only happens when the package is built in unstable—presumably due to updated versions of Debhelper and Dpkg there. Kind regards Felix Lechner
Bug#993531: lintian: doesn't know about conffile remove-on-upgrade tag
Package: lintian Version: 2.104.0 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I was building my package (chkboot 1.3-8) when lintian reported the following tags: ``` E: chkboot: conffile-is-not-in-package remove-on-upgrade /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zzz-chkboot E: chkboot: conffile-is-not-in-package remove-on-upgrade /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zzz-chkboot E: chkboot: non-etc-file-marked-as-conffile remove-on-upgrade /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zzz-chkboot E: chkboot: non-etc-file-marked-as-conffile remove-on-upgrade /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zzz-chkboot E: chkboot: relative-conffile remove-on-upgrade /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zzz-chkboot E: chkboot: relative-conffile remove-on-upgrade /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zzz-chkboot ``` Based on the following conffile generated by dpkg 1.20.9 and debhelper 13.5.1: ``` remove-on-upgrade /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zzz-chkboot remove-on-upgrade /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zzz-chkboot /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/05chkboot /etc/default/chkboot /etc/init.d/chkboot /etc/profile.d/chkboot-profilealert.sh ``` The remove-on-upgrade tag is a new feature from dpkg 1.20.6 as stated in deb-conffiles(5): ``` There is currently only one flag supported, remove-on-upgrade, to mark that a conffile needs to be removed on the next upgrade (since dpkg 1.20.6). These files must not exist in the binary package, as both dpkg(1) and dpkg-deb(1) will not accept building nor processing such binary packages. ``` Lintian should skip the tag if present while checking for the given tags. Best, -- Baptiste Beauplat - lyknode signature.asc Description: PGP signature
