Bug#797048: systemd: obsolete conffile /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.machine1.conf

[Michael Biebl]

Am 27.08.2015 um 14:52 schrieb Felipe Sateler:
> On 27 August 2015 at 07:48, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
>> Hi Jakub,
>>
>> Am 27.08.2015 um 12:09 schrieb Jakub Wilk:
>>> Package: systemd
>>> Version: 224-2
>>> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
>>> Usertags: adequate obsolete-conffile
>>>
>>> The package left obsolete conffile after upgrade:
>>> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.machine1.conf
>>
>> This is due to the package split in 224-2 and we were well aware of that
>> before the upload. TTBOMK, there is no mechanism in Debian how you can
>> transfer conffiles safely from on package to another.
>> I'd be delighted to learn otherwise.
>>
> 
> I think that rm_conffile in systemd + versioned depends in
> systemd-container will do it.
> 
> A snippet should be added to systemd-container postinst that copies
> back the .dpkg-bak file if it exists to preserve user modifications.
> 
> So, it should be:
> 
> debian/systemd.maintscript:
> rm_conffile /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.machine1.conf 224-2~
> 
> debian/systemd-container.postinst:
> 
> if [ "$1" = configure ] && [ -z "$2" ] && \
>    [ -f /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.machine1.conf.dpkg-bak ] ; then
>     # copy stale file from systemd package on new installs
>      mv  /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.machine1.conf.dpkg-bak \
>          /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.machine1.conf
> fi
> 
> systemd-container already conflicts older systemd versions, and
> depends on systemd, so this should work.
> 
> I haven't tested this though, and the postinst condition could be
> expanded to include the nonconforming upload done but I'm not sure it
> is worth the trouble.

Some more background:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/12/msg00647.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/02/msg00349.html

Still an unsolved problem afaics.



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