Bug#808099: cabal-install: conffiles not removed

[Paul Wise]

Package: cabal-install
Version: 1.22.6.0-2
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
http://manpages.debian.org/man/1/dh_installdeb

This bug report brought to you by adequate:

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

$ pkg=cabal-install ; adequate $pkg ; dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' $pkg | grep obsolete
cabal-install: obsolete-conffile /etc/bash_completion.d/cabal
 /etc/bash_completion.d/cabal c4fa8861c95ec1a6f1554256f8b8f3ca obsolete

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (860, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (850, 'buildd-testing-proposed-updates'), (800, 'unstable'), (790, 'buildd-unstable'), (700, 'experimental'), (690, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages cabal-install depends on:
ii  ghc [libghc-cabal-dev]  7.8.4-9
ii  libc6                   2.21-4
ii  libffi6                 3.2.1-3
ii  libghc-cabal-dev        1.22.1.1-2+b3
ii  libgmp10                2:6.1.0+dfsg-2
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

Versions of packages cabal-install recommends:
ii  ghc  7.8.4-9

cabal-install suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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