Public bug reported:
Using 'dpkg-maintscript-helper supports mv_conffile' guards introduces
unreliability into upgrades; it means that the conffile is removed or
not depending on whether dpkg happens to be unpacked before lubuntu-
default-settings. This seems generally undesirable; it would be better
to enforce a single code path. This matters because Ubuntu's last LTS
release didn't have a sufficient version of dpkg for that; I know
Lubuntu wasn't in the last LTS, but this is the last package on my list
and it would be good to get the list down to zero!
It would be nice to just use dh_installdeb's support for generating
dpkg-maintscript-helper commands, which was introduced in debhelper
8.1.0. This would remove duplicate code from your maintainer scripts -
in fact, you could remove your handwritten preinst entirely. Here's a
patch. (I'd have submitted this as a merge proposal, but as I
understand it it isn't currently possible to file merge proposals
against branches in the +junk namespace; maybe lubuntu-default-settings
should become a proper project and have the packaging branch moved
there?)
** Affects: lubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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use dh_installdeb maintscript support
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