Bug#726082: gdm3: conffiles not removed

[Paul Wise]

Package: gdm3
Version: 3.8.4-1
Severity: normal
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/

$ pkg=gdm3 ; adequate $pkg ; dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' $pkg | grep obsolete
gdm3: obsolete-conffile /etc/dconf/db/gdm
gdm3: obsolete-conffile /etc/dconf/profile/gdm
 /etc/dconf/db/gdm 86de6bc0b37d8cd4e70b909f225e1247 obsolete
 /etc/dconf/profile/gdm f2bce152cccc44e92ac57be682b149e2 obsolete

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers experimental
  APT policy: (1900, 'experimental'), (1800, 'unstable'), (1700, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: armel
armhf
i386

Kernel: Linux 3.10-rc4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice                             0.6.34-2
ii  adduser                                     3.113+nmu3
ii  awesome [x-window-manager]                  3.5.1-1
ii  dconf-cli                                   0.16.1-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend                     0.16.1-1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                       1.5.51
ii  e17 [x-window-manager]                      0.17.3-1
ii  gir1.2-gdm3                                 3.8.4-1
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]           3.6.0-1
ii  gnome-session-bin                           3.6.0-1
ii  gnome-session-fallback [x-session-manager]  3.6.0-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                       3.6.4-1
ii  gnome-shell                                 3.6.2-2
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]        3.8.4-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                   3.7.90-1
ii  kde-window-manager [x-window-manager]       4:4.10.5-3
ii  konsole [x-terminal-emulator]               4:4.11.2-1
ii  libaccountsservice0                         0.6.34-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                                 2.10.0-2
ii  libaudit1                                   1:2.3.2-2
ii  libc6                                       2.17-93
ii  libcairo-gobject2                           1.12.16-2
ii  libcairo2                                   1.12.16-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                          0.30-2
ii  libcanberra0                                0.30-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                          2.28.2-1
ii  libgdm1                                     3.8.4-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                2.38.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-bin                              2.38.0-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                  3.8.2-1
ii  libpam-modules                              1.1.3-9
ii  libpam-runtime                              1.1.3-9
ii  libpam0g                                    1.1.3-9
ii  libpango-1.0-0                              1.32.5-5
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                         1.32.5-5
ii  librsvg2-common                             2.36.4-2
ii  libselinux1                                 2.1.13-3
ii  libwrap0                                    7.6.q-24
ii  libx11-6                                    2:1.6.2-1
ii  libxau6                                     1:1.0.8-1
ii  libxdmcp6                                   1:1.1.1-1
ii  libxrandr2                                  2:1.4.1-1
ii  lsb-base                                    4.1+Debian12
ii  lxsession [x-session-manager]               0.4.6.1-4
ii  lxterminal [x-terminal-emulator]            0.1.11-4
ii  matchbox-window-manager [x-window-manager]  1.2-osso21-1+b1
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]                 1:2.34.13-1
ii  mutter [x-window-manager]                   3.6.2-1
ii  openbox [x-window-manager]                  3.5.0-7
ii  policykit-1-gnome                           0.105-2
ii  razorqt-session [x-session-manager]         0.5.2-2
ii  terminal.app [x-terminal-emulator]          0.9.8-1+nmu1
ii  upower                                      0.9.22-1
ii  wmaker [x-window-manager]                   0.95.4-1
ii  x11-common                                  1:7.7+4
ii  x11-xserver-utils                           7.7+1
ii  xfce4-session [x-session-manager]           4.10.1-3
ii  xfce4-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]        0.6.2-3
ii  xfwm4 [x-window-manager]                    4.10.1-2
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]                 297-1

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi2-core               2.10.0-1
ii  desktop-base               7.0.3
ii  gnome-icon-theme           3.8.3-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.8.2.2-2
ii  x11-xkb-utils              7.7~1
ii  xserver-xephyr             2:1.14.3-4
ii  xserver-xorg               1:7.7+4
ii  zenity                     3.8.0-1

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii  gnome-orca            3.4.2-2
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.8.2-2

-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3
  gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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