Bug#703750: vlc-data: obsolete conffile not removed

[Paul Wise]

Package: vlc-data
Version: 2.0.5-2
Severity: important
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/

pabs at chianamo ~ $ adequate vlc-data
vlc-data: obsolete-conffile /etc/vlc/http/.hosts
pabs at chianamo ~ $ dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' vlc-data | grep obsolete
 /etc/vlc/http/.hosts 487bfe8c3948da33c57775ea867101cb obsolete
pabs at chianamo ~ $ dpkg -L vlc-data | sort -u | grep /etc > 1
pabs at chianamo ~ $ dpkg-deb --contents /var/cache/apt/archives/vlc-data_2.0.5-2_all.deb | sed 's/^.*\.\//\//;s_/$__' | sort -u | grep /etc > 2
pabs at chianamo ~ $ diff -u 1 2
--- 1	2013-03-23 13:34:20.270471165 +0800
+++ 2	2013-03-23 13:34:43.614168843 +0800
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 /etc
 /etc/vlc
-/etc/vlc/http/.hosts
 /etc/vlc/lua
 /etc/vlc/lua/http
 /etc/vlc/lua/http/dialogs
 /etc/vlc/lua/http/dialogs/.hosts
 /etc/vlc/lua/http/.hosts
+/usr/share/vlc/lua/http/dialogs/.hosts -> /etc/vlc/lua/http/dialogs/.hosts
+/usr/share/vlc/lua/http/.hosts -> /etc/vlc/lua/http/.hosts

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.8-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages vlc-data depends on:
ii  dpkg  1.16.9

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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