Bug#1035483: debsums: false positives on removed conffiles retaining a remove-on-upgrade entry in Conffiles

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 04/05/2023 09.46, Axel Beckert wrote:
> So currently the overall impact seems not that big, neither for the
> bug nor for the proposed fix.

The list of packages using it is short, but the one I encountered it for 
the first time (pkgconf) has a huge number of rdepends.
I'm not sure why it hasn't been caught the first time the new pkgconf 
was tested ... but then again, I haven't kept an eye on piuparts for a 
long time ...

> But since piuparts might report failures because of that, I do see the
> reasoning for the RC severity despite the previous bug report was just
> "normal" — probably the reason why I forgot about it. :-/
> 
> Admittedly I'm not keen on modifying debsums behaviour at this stage
> of the freeze. Then again, your patch is small and clear.

Working around it in piuparts would have been much more involved (or 
mean disabling the debsums test).

> I'll see that I make some testing and then an upload with that patch
> and request a freeze exception latest at the upcoming weekend.

Thanks.

Andreas