[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#669953: Obsolete conffiles /etc/fonts/conf.avail/43-wqy-zenhei-sharp.conf and /etc/fonts/conf.avail/44-wqy-zenhei.conf not cleaned up on upgrade

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 02:44:00AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Package: ttf-wqy-zenhei
> Version: 0.9.45-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> dpkg does not automatically remove conffiles on upgrade when a package
> stops shipping them.  ttf-wqy-zenhei needs to clean up the obsolete
> conffiles /etc/fonts/conf.avail/43-wqy-zenhei-sharp.conf and
> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/44-wqy-zenhei.conf in its maintainer scripts,
> using dpkg-maintscript-helper.  Please see the manpage of
> dpkg-maintscript-helper for details.

Very true.

Maybe this was working for -3.1 not to get bug report :-)

Whoever had this package liked Chinese priority.  Others who just
installed on top of non-chinese system, liked this as well.....

Anyway, postinst with md5sum check seems to be the solution.

Osamu