[Python-apps-team] Bug#718621: mercurial: conffiles not removed

[Paul Wise]

On Sun, 2013-08-11 at 16:04 +0200, Javi Merino wrote:

> /etc/bash_completion.d/mercurial and /etc/mercurial/hgrc were
> conffiles of mercurial in 2.6.2-1 and are conffiles of
> mercurial-common in 2.6.3-1.  mercurial depends on mercurial-common,
> so is this really a bug?

So the issue must be that you aren't properly transferring these
conffiles between packages. Perhaps this post helps with that:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/debian/2006-12-23-moving-conffiles.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/12/msg00647.html

In addition, the second two files should be removed:

pabs at chianamo ~ $ dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' mercurial | grep obsolete | tail -n2
 /etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/mergetools.rc 256f6d68e04f68df651392d7019bad0a obsolete
 /etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/cacerts.rc 9f9020947cdcb24be9e042f5fa40a43a obsolete

> Besides, I can't reproduce it on a clean sid chroot:

Er, obviously you won't be able to reproduce it in a clean sid chroot
that never had the old version of mercurial installed.

If you aren't going to fix this issue, please close the bug and I will
just purge and reinstall mercurial to get rid of this issue.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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