Package: dpkg
Version: 1.18.4
Severity: normal
Control: user debian-d...@lists.debian.org
Control: usertag -1 declarative-packaging
Currently, if a package drops a config file, the package maintainer
has to invoke:
dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile $CONFFILE $PRIOR_VERSION $PKGNAME -- "$@"
in the package's prinst, postinst, and postrm maintainer scripts.
Instead, dpkg should be aware of the dropped config file and handle it
automatically.
This will help us to reduce some of the need for maintainer scripts,
making the archive more maintainable and auditable.
--dkg
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1,
'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-8
ii libc6 2.22-6
ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1
ii libselinux1 2.4-3+b1
ii tar 1.28-2.1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
dpkg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii apt 1.2.10
-- debconf-show failed
