[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1090823: Bug#1090823: network-manager-gnome: leftover conffiles

[Michael Biebl]

Am 19.12.24 um 18:07 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer:
> Package: network-manager-gnome
> Version: 1.36.0-3+b1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Apparently the package used to ship /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop as a DPKG
> conffile, but not longer does so (at least not as a DPKG conffile).
> 
> The conffile was however not properly unregistered when it was dropped:
> # dpkg-query --showformat='${Package}\n${Conffiles}\n' --show  |  awk '/^[^ ]/{pkg=$1}/ obsolete$/{print pkg,$0}' | cut -d ' ' -f 1-3 | column -t
> network-manager-gnome  /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop
> 
> Could you please do so in a future upgrade to the package?

There are no mechanisms provided by dpkg to transfer over conffiles from 
one package to another. The best you can do is to use Replaces.
This is a shortcoming of dpkg (and its ecosystem) and I'm afraid there 
is nothing really that I can do about that in 
network-manager-(gnome,applet). You might want to raise that with the 
dpkg maintainers.

At this point, I'm inclined to close this as wontfix.


Michael
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