Bug#1040351: chrome-gnome-shell: obsolete conffile /etc/chromium/native-messaging-hosts/org.gnome.chrome_gnome_shell.json

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Tue 04 Jul 2023 at 02:54PM -04, Jeremy Bícha wrote:

> Control: reassign -1 src: gnome-browser-connector 42.1-3
>
> On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 2:45 PM Sean Whitton <spwhitton at spwhitton.name> wrote:
>> Package: chrome-gnome-shell
>> Version: 10.1-5
>>
>> Dear maintainer,
>>
>> The upgrade from bullseye to bookworm leaves behind this obsolete conffile:
>>
>>     spwhitton at melete:~>dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' chrome-gnome-shell | grep obsolete$
>>      /etc/chromium/native-messaging-hosts/org.gnome.chrome_gnome_shell.json 332a7cffa69102648a83e6819cefe5e3 obsolete
>
> chrome-gnome-shell is now a transitional package that depends on
> gnome-browser-connector which provides that file.
>
> Patches welcome if this is a bug and if you have an idea of how to fix it.

I think it's a bug because if the user has edited the conffile, it needs
to be properly taken over by gnome-browser-connector.  I think
gnome-browser-connector needs to use the mv_conffile feature of
dpkg-maintscript-helper.

-- 
Sean Whitton
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