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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 20.12.24 um 22:18 schrieb 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.
> 

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=595112

I'm not holding my breath to have a fix for this anytime soon.
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