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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 21.02.22 um 12:21 schrieb Simon McVittie:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo help
> 
> 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.

There is indeed no support for this.
Taking over a conffile from another package is a tricky business and 
ideally would have native support by dpkg.

In systemd we used
https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/commit/d6483013d5779d4d465a1e174e44a754b941d0e6
for systemd-timesyncd.

This approach is not without caveats though.
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