Bug#954717: gnome-session-flashback: conffiles not removed

[Paul Wise]

Package: gnome-session-flashback
Version: 3.36.0-2
Severity: normal
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.

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

This bug report brought to you by adequate:

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

$ p=gnome-session-flashback ; adequate $p ; dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' $p | grep obsolete
gnome-session-flashback: obsolete-conffile /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-flashback-screensaver.desktop
 /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-flashback-screensaver.desktop 4b4a9ed842f6534d0af6359a1d15309b obsolete

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (860, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (800, 'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (790, 'buildd-unstable'), (700, 'experimental-debug'), (700, 'experimental'), (690, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-session-flashback depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.36.0-1
ii  gnome-flashback                              3.36.0-2
ii  gnome-panel                                  3.36.0-1
ii  gnome-session-bin                            3.36.0-1
ii  gnome-session-common                         3.36.0-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        3.36.0-1
ii  metacity                                     1:3.36.0-1

Versions of packages gnome-session-flashback recommends:
ii  gnome-power-manager  3.32.0-2

Versions of packages gnome-session-flashback suggests:
ii  desktop-base     10.0.3
ii  gnome-keyring    3.34.0-1
ii  gnome-user-docs  3.36.0-1

-- no debconf information

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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