[PKG-Openstack-devel] Bug#773692: Please properly remove conffiles

[Thomas Goirand]

On 12/23/2014 09:33 PM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> I disagree. Using the helper seems like a lot safer to me than the code
> you just added yesterday at least for ceilometer.

I'm planning on removing it.

> Your code just
> unconditionally removes the old config file. This is wrong. It should
> only be removed if it was unchanged and renamed to .dpkg-bak otherwise.

Yeah, I agree. Though the issue is that the helper scripts aren't
available in Wheezy, so I wont be able to use them unless breaking
backport to Wheezy.

>>> Also a note in NEWS.Debian about the changes location would be nice.
>>
>> That is easier and less error prone.
> 
> I did not suggest this as an alternative to the dpkg-maintscript-helper
> but as an additional hint that would be nice.

As per above, I don't think I can use dpkg-maintscript-helper.

> I was under teh impression yesterday that only the juno branch was
> affected. I now see that this is wrong and also the icehouse branch is
> affected. You should thus really reopen the bugs! IMO this should be
> fixed before the release.

I don't agree. This is hardly of severity "important", and the fix is
far from trivial if avoiding dpkg-maintscript-helper.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)