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

[Simon McVittie]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 at 12:42:06 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 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.

In policykit-1, at least we don't have to handle the case where the
conffile is intentionally removed, because policykit-1 Depends on polkitd,
so things are a little simpler than what happens in systemd where upgrades
will not always install systemd-timesyncd.

    smcv