Bug#993714: conffile which got removed during upgrade reported missing

[Andrej Shadura]

Hi Axel,

On Sun, 5 Sep 2021 21:11:33 +0200 Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> wrote:
> > and I've just pushed a one-line patch to ignore all lines containing the
> > remove-on-upgrade flag. However I'd prefer if somebody else has a look
> > to confirm this solution,
> 
> Will do.
> 
> > (Axel, you must have looked into this when developing the "obsolete"
> > fix?)
> 
> Actually Andreas Beckmann came up with that and I just fine-tuned
> things a bit.
> 
> But that was back in 2017 while remove-on-upgrade is really, really
> new. Actually it got introduced just very shortly before the soft
> freeze for Bullseye when IIRC the toolchain freeze (December 2020,
> right?) actually was already through if I read dpkg's changelog
> correctly. *sigh*

Could you please look into this again? I’ve just run into this issue, 
and I think remove-on-upgrade is hardly new at this point :)

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Cheers,
   Andrej