[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#1101456: not false positive

[Pirate Praveen]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:29:03 +0200 Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha at debian.org> 
wrote:
> Here's a scripted reproducer:
> 
>      mmdebstrap --variant=apt --chrooted-customize-hook='cd / && apt download javascript-common && dpkg -i ./javascript-common_*.deb && rm /etc/apache2/conf-available/javascript-common.conf && apt install -y apache2 && dpkg -i ./javascript-common_*.deb' stable /dev/null
> 
> I'll note this already happens with the version in stable.
> 
> Raising severity to serious, as per my understanding of the policy, 
> removing a conffile is a supported action, and maintainer scripts 
> must not fail in this case.
> 
> A workaround should be:
>      dpkg -i --reinstall ./javascript-common_*.deb
> (Which should restore the missing conffiles.)
That file is the core part of the package. I wonder what it is supposed 
to do if that is missing?

/etc/apache2/conf-available/javascript-common.conf

Without this file, the package becomes useless (if using apache2). Does 
it really make sense to ignore this missing conf file in maintscripts?

This looks to me like a user error.
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