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

Christoph Anton Mitterer calestyo at scientia.org
Fri Dec 20 21:39:59 GMT 2024


Hey Michael.


On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 22:18 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 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.

Shouldn't we rather reassign the bug then to dpkg? :-)


Cheers,
Chris.



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