Bug#994931: systemd: silently removed configuration files for systemd-timesyncd

[Ansgar]

Hi,

On Thu, 2021-09-23 at 13:02 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> and the preinst/postinst/... files no longer contain any calls to 
> dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile. Code that was generated by 
> debhelper/dh_installdeb.
> 
> So is this maybe a debhelper issue?
> Fwiw, I've never heard of remove-on-upgrade before.

Maybe packages that transfer conffiles between packages like systemd
and systemd-timesyncd should add manual calls to dpkg-maintscript-
helper in the maintainer scripts to retain the old behavior?  And
remove the relevant line(s) from systemd.maintscript of course.

Ansgar