Bug#768815: apache2.2-common: debsums reports missing conffiles after wheezy -> jessie upgrade

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>]

On Sunday 09 November 2014 14:21:34, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> I'm not sure whether (or how) dpkg-maintscript-helper mv_conffile
> can be used reliably to rename a conffile and switch ownership to
> another package at the same time.

I don't see how there is any way to handle rename and takeofer of 
conffiles at the same time at all. If the rename is done in apache2.2-
common, how would it know if something went wrong and it has to revert 
the changes?

I think dpkg needs to provide an explicit interface for marking 
conffiles as removed. Or piuparts should just ignore missing obsolete 
conffiles.

But I will do an upload that removes the obsolete conffiles. Then 
doing tests with the renamed/taken over conffiles may become easier.