Bug#970636: tracker: conffile not removed: /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop

[Paul Wise]

Package: tracker
Version: 2.3.6-2
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=tracker ; adequate $p ; dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' $p | grep obsolete
tracker: obsolete-conffile /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop
 /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop cf31b8529014a032ed5715e08e7ae5cc obsolete

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

Kernel: Linux 5.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages tracker depends on:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.12.20-1
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                   1.12.20-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]   0.38.0-1
ii  libc6                                         2.31-3
ii  libglib2.0-0                                  2.66.0-2
ii  libglib2.0-bin                                2.66.0-2
ii  libicu67                                      67.1-4
ii  libsqlite3-0                                  3.33.0-1
ii  libstemmer0d                                  2.0.0-2
ii  libtracker-control-2.0-0                      2.3.6-2
ii  libtracker-sparql-2.0-0                       2.3.6-2
ii  shared-mime-info                              1.15-1

Versions of packages tracker recommends:
ii  tracker-miner-fs  2.3.3-2+b1

tracker suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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