[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#706910: acpi-support: conffiles not removed

[Paul Wise]

Package: acpi-support
Version: 0.141-2
Severity: important
Usertags: conffile
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: obsolete-conffile adequate

The recent upgrade did not deal with obsolete conffiles properly.
Please use the dpkg-maintscript-helper support provided by dh_installdeb
to remove these obsolete conffiles on upgrade.

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files
http://manpages.debian.net/man/1/dh_installdeb

This bug report brought to you by adequate:

http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2013/02/23/inadequate-software/

pabs at chianamo ~ $ pkg=acpi-support
pabs at chianamo ~ $ adequate $pkg
acpi-support: obsolete-conffile /etc/acpi/events/asus-brightness-down
acpi-support: obsolete-conffile /etc/acpi/events/asus-brightness-up
acpi-support: obsolete-conffile /etc/acpi/asus-brn-down.sh
acpi-support: obsolete-conffile /etc/acpi/asus-brn-up.sh
pabs at chianamo ~ $ dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' $pkg | grep obsolete
 /etc/acpi/events/asus-brightness-down ca3c9d1ad2ed1f530f8696f27298cfb7 obsolete
 /etc/acpi/events/asus-brightness-up eeba7f13f65ab716170f42c43dc062e5 obsolete
 /etc/acpi/asus-brn-down.sh 05f15b50786169b7610704436bc028ff obsolete
 /etc/acpi/asus-brn-up.sh 4e59392c1b46e23158aac89aa281a1ae obsolete
pabs at chianamo ~ $ dpkg -L $pkg | sort -u | grep /etc > 1    
pabs at chianamo ~ $ dpkg-deb --contents /var/cache/apt/archives/acpi-support_0.141-2_all.deb | sed 's/^.*\.\//\//;s_/$__' | sort -u | grep /etc > 2
pabs at chianamo ~ $ diff -u 1 2
--- 1	2013-05-06 10:31:44.392371282 +0800
+++ 2	2013-05-06 10:31:15.836760009 +0800
@@ -1,16 +1,12 @@
 /etc
 /etc/acpi
 /etc/acpi/always-mute.sh
-/etc/acpi/asus-brn-down.sh
-/etc/acpi/asus-brn-up.sh
 /etc/acpi/asus-touchpad.sh
 /etc/acpi/asus-wireless.sh
 /etc/acpi/batterybtn.sh
 /etc/acpi/ejectbtn.sh
 /etc/acpi/events
 /etc/acpi/events/ac
-/etc/acpi/events/asus-brightness-down
-/etc/acpi/events/asus-brightness-up
 /etc/acpi/events/asus-f8sv-touchpad
 /etc/acpi/events/asus-media-eject
 /etc/acpi/events/asus-rotate

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.8-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages acpi-support depends on:
ii  acpi-fakekey       0.141-2
ii  acpi-support-base  0.141-2
ii  acpid              1:2.0.18-1
ii  lsb-base           4.1+Debian9
ii  pm-utils           1.4.1-9
ii  x11-xserver-utils  7.7~3

Versions of packages acpi-support recommends:
ii  gnome-screensaver  3.4.1-1
pn  rfkill             <none>
ii  xscreensaver       5.15-3

Versions of packages acpi-support suggests:
ii  radeontool  1.6.2-1.1
ii  vbetool     1.1-3
pn  xinput      <none>

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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