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

[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)

> 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

Cheers,
Michael
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