Bug#689508: ignore obsolete conffiles which are not owned by the package

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Andreas,

Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2017-04-21 02:20, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> > The attached patch unconditionally excludes all obsolete conffiles.
> > Maybe that is not the optimal approach and a new command line option
> > should be used instead (and then we could discuss whether obsolete
> > conffiles should be ignored by default - I would say yes).
> 
> I don't know if this was now caused by my patch or if it happened
> before, but I've just seen this error (see #861136 for the piuparts log):
> 
> 1m58.2s ERROR: FAIL: debsums reports modifications inside the chroot:
>   /var/lib/dpkg/info/inn2-lfs.md5sums is empty but shouldn't!
> 
> At this point, the package owned
> * an obsolete conffile
> * a symlink /usr/share/doc/package -> target
> * the directories up to /usr/share/doc
> * but no regular files

Thanks for the details.

Holger suggested recently on IRC to try get that patch of yours to
Stretch.

Is the above an indicator for not doing so or rather showing how
important it would be? Can't tell, sorry.

		Regards, Axel
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