[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#653050: obsolete conffiles / symlinks not cleaned up for bootlogd split

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Debian folks,


Am Mittwoch, den 07.03.2012, 09:30 +0100 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> On 23.12.2011 13:11, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 06:24:22AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >> Package: initscripts
> >> Version: 2.88dsf-18
> >> Severity: normal
> >>
> >> Thanks for splitting bootlogd into a separate package!
> >>
> >> I noticed though, that after the upgrade I still had the obsolete
> >> conffiles installed:
> > 
> > Just to clarify, was bootlogd installed at any point?  If bootlogd
> 
> No, I just upgraded initscripts/sysvinit-utils
> I never installed bootlogd (btw, I hope you don't add bootlogd back as a
> depends or recommends)

if I am not mistaken I also never had `bootlogd` installed.

> > gets installed, we can do conffile-related handling in the preinst,
> > but otherwise it would be rather dangerous for use to do anything
> > here, since we might remove files owned by bootlogd.
> > 
> > I've moved conffiles between packages and within packages before, but
> > never kept them in the same location.  That does make it trickier.
> 
> This might be helpful:
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/02/msg00249.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/02/msg00254.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/02/msg00349.html

Ironically this bug leads to the problem reported in #676463 for
`sysv-rc`. (I do not know if `affects` or `blocks` have to be set.)

        $ dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' initscripts | grep 'obsolete$'
         /etc/init.d/stop-bootlogd 4544c7e1a2d0c713d29424d02faad237 obsolete
         /etc/init.d/bootlogd 267ceea04f703171e6c62f506fda3305 obsolete
         /etc/init.d/stop-bootlogd-single 648d8624e708151500c5e299a6005afe obsolete
        $ md5sum /etc/init.d/stop-bootlogd /etc/init.d/bootlogd /etc/init.d/stop-bootlogd-single
        4544c7e1a2d0c713d29424d02faad237  /etc/init.d/stop-bootlogd
        267ceea04f703171e6c62f506fda3305  /etc/init.d/bootlogd
        648d8624e708151500c5e299a6005afe  /etc/init.d/stop-bootlogd-single

So `initscripts` should make sure to get these conffiles removed, if I
am not mistaken.

It would be great if you could find a solution.


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=676463
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