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

[Felipe Sateler]

On 11 September 2015 at 11:50, Jakub Wilk <jwilk at debian.org> wrote:
> Control: found -1 225-1
>
> * Jakub Wilk <jwilk at debian.org>, 2015-08-27, 12:09:
>>
>> The package left obsolete conffile after upgrade:
>> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.machine1.conf
>
>
> I still see this obsolete conffile on my system.
>
> Presumably it's because the version passed to dpkg-maintscript-help is too
> low.
>
> Quoting the manpage: “If the conffile has not been shipped for several
> versions, and you are now modifying the maintainer scripts to clean up the
> obsolete file, prior-version should be based on the version of the package
> that you are now preparing, not the first version of the package that lacked
> the conffile.”

This is done on purpose. Because the conffile is not removed, but
rather moved across packages, one cannot simply bump the version. Due
to the extra complications involved in preserving the file in the
package systemd-container, this case (that will only be confronted by
sid users) was deliberately not handled.

I think this bug should remain closed.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler