[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#764679: Bug#764679: libvirt-bin: conffiles not removed

[Guido Günther]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 03:34:01PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> Package: libvirt-bin
> Version: 1.2.8-3
> Severity: normal
> Usertags: conffile
> 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.
> 
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files
> http://manpages.debian.net/man/1/dh_installdeb
> 
> This bug report brought to you by adequate:
> 
> http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2013/02/23/inadequate-software/
> 
> $ pkg=libvirt-bin ; adequate $pkg ; dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' $pkg | grep obsolete
> libvirt-bin: obsolete-conffile /etc/apparmor.d/libvirtd/TEMPLATE
> libvirt-bin: obsolete-conffile /etc/apparmor.d/libvirt/TEMPLATE
> $ /etc/apparmor.d/libvirtd/TEMPLATE b0dfa704c6297fd9a4e68f0137c6be88 obsolete
>  /etc/apparmor.d/libvirt/TEMPLATE 0d5580a22d95fc622cd5b8efe54b8757 obsolete

This is handled by libvirt-daemon-system since libvirt-bin is
transitional and l-d-s took over it's conffiles. So is there really a
bug here?
Cheers,
 -- Guido