[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1006203: polkitd: mishandled configuration ownership change from policykit-1 to polkitd

[Simon McVittie]

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On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 at 12:18:57 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> The new polkit that trickled into Testing today apparently shuffled
> ownership of 3 config files from policykit-1 to polkitd without using
> dpkg-maintscript-helper.

I don't see anything in the dpkg-maintscript-helper man page about using
it when one package takes over another package's conffile, only about
using it when a conffile is removed (not the case here) or renamed (not
the case here). We don't want those conffiles to be removed or renamed
during upgrades, we just want polkitd to take over their ownership from
the transitional policykit-1 package.

Do you have a solution in mind for this? I'm open to suggestions.

> This leaves those 3 config files in DPKG database limbo.

What does "dpkg database limbo" mean, exactly? Is there a user-visible
problem that this will cause?

    smcv