Bug#768815: apache2.2-common: debsums reports missing conffiles after wheezy -> jessie upgrade
On 2014-11-18 14:23, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> I think it would be best to ask the dpkg maintainers if they can make
> dpkg recognize that the obsolete conffiles have been removed. If that
that is a hard part
but I got some weird idea about generalized file ownership:
(the classic ones)
* you own a file exclusively that you ship (there are special cases for
m-a same packages)
* you own a directory shared that you ship
(the weird ones)
* you own an object exclusively with the property ***SHOULD_NOT_EXIST***
i.e. you have a file conflict with any other package that wants to own
that object, too. so you take-over ownership of obsolete conffiles.
* you own an object exclusively, but don't ship it. instead it is
generated by maintainer scripts or whatever. this is marked with the
property either delete-on-remove or delete-on-purge - so dpkg could
handle proper cleanup on removal/purge, too, without the need for
maintainer scripts performing cleanup. might be handy for
configuration files, state files, cache files, logfiles, ...
if that does not sound totally insane we should propose this to guillem
for dpkg 1.20+x
> is not feasible for Jessie, debsums or piuparts should work around
> this problem so that piuparts tests are still possible. Do you agree?
maybe you have convinced me to fix debsums instead ...
PS: do you need the apache2.2-common transitional package? would
upgrades work if that would not exist?
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