[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#953997: obsolete conffiles after upgrade

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 04:36:14PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Fri, 2023-05-12 at 14:27 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > I think at this point we can assume that most people who have hit the
> > issue on upgrade will have cleaned things up manually by now, so I'd
> > be inclined to close the bug and move on.
> > 
> > Any objections?
> 
> Well not a strong objection from my side, but I think typically most
> people will rather simply not even notice that they have leftover
> files, so they'll stay there forever unless cleaned up properly.

I understand that, and ideally I would love to keep things tidy.
However, I'm afraid we might have missed our chance.

At this point, nobody is going to be upgrading from 5.6.0-3, but from
a more recent version of libvirt-daemon-system where the conffiles in
question are already not considered part of the package.

Note that these conffiles are not actually gone, they've just been
migrated to the libvirt-daemon-system-sysv. So we can't simply delete
them from the system without a version check, otherwise we'd break
all sysvinit users.

I can't think of a simple, reliable way to handle cleaning up under
our current circumstances.

Another thing to keep in mind is that we're likely going to move
these conffiles *back* for trixie[1], or possibly move them to some
newly-introduced packages. That's going to be tricky (ah!) already,
and I'd rather not complicate things further by layering that work on
top of some late cleanup code.


[1] https://salsa.debian.org/libvirt-team/libvirt/-/merge_requests/169
-- 
Andrea Bolognani <eof at kiyuko.org>
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