[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#932017: passwd: conffiles not removed

[Paul Wise]

Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.7-1
Severity: normal
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.

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files
https://manpages.debian.org/man/1/dh_installdeb

This bug report brought to you by adequate:

http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2013/02/23/inadequate-software/

$ pkg=passwd ; adequate $pkg ; dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' $pkg | grep obsolete
passwd: obsolete-conffile /etc/cron.daily/passwd
 /etc/cron.daily/passwd db990990933b6f56322725223f13c2bc obsolete

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (790, 'buildd-unstable'), (700, 'experimental-debug'), (700, 'experimental'), (690, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages passwd depends on:
ii  libaudit1       1:2.8.4-3
ii  libc6           2.28-10
ii  libpam-modules  1.3.1-5
ii  libpam0g        1.3.1-5
ii  libselinux1     2.8-1+b1
ii  libsemanage1    2.8-2

passwd recommends no packages.

passwd suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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