Bug#762364: gnome-panel-data: doesn't clean up old config file :

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Hi,

Control: close -1

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer
<calestyo at scientia.net> wrote:
> Even if that's a long while ago, why does it mean that it can't be
> cleaned up anymore?

Yes. We keep transitional stuff only for one Debian release.

> I mean it happens every now and then that maintainers forget to properly
> handle old config files, which they do then in on of the next releases -
> what's the difference if there is two weeks in between or 4 years?
> There should be dh helper routines to mark such file obsolete, and if
> its there it's removed and if not nothing happens.
>
> Otherwise all people who ever had gnome-panel-data installed will live
> with stale:
> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.gnome.ClockApplet.Mechanism.conf
> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/
> /etc/dbus-1/

I checked Svn and found out that on Debian side that directory was
dropped in revision 27005. That probably means that you had that
configuration file modified, and thus it was not removed. (Also, apt
should have warned you in any case, about "not removing directory
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/ which has modified files").

There is really nothing I can do *now* to remove that file from your system.

--
Dmitry Shachnev