Bug#978607: Please drop empty /etc/udev/udev.conf

[Luca Boccassi]

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On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 21:59:22 -0800 Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org>
wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 14:56:42 -0800 Josh Triplett
<josh at joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> > It looks like those files are installed upstream by the
> > install-sysconfdir option, which also controls the installation of
empty
> > .d directories and similar, and I think we want to keep the latter.
I've
> > filed https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/18112 about the
> > possibility of splitting that option.
> 
> I wrote a patch upstream, which has now been merged. Once that patch
is
> in Debian (whether backported or by shipping a new upstream version),
> it'll just require setting install-sysconfdir=no-samples.

Unfortunately it's not that simple, due to dpkg's idiosyncrasies, they
are "conffiles" so special handling is needed to remove them, with
postinst machinery and whatnot. If you test this and send a MR on Salsa
I will review it, but I will not do the work myself.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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