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Re: Should we still purge GConf schemas from the old directory?



Le lundi 27 avril 2009 à 22:47 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> Removing that snippet would be fair; but I don't think this transition has
> actually been managed very well, since on a system that's been upgraded
> continuously since woody I now see that /etc/gconf/schemas/ is full of
> orphaned .schemas.  These should have been handled in the preinst of the
> relevant packages when the conffiles were first dropped, to automatically
> remove any unmodified conffiles.

This would have meant introducing ~200 preinsts by hand, since it was
not possible to generate them automatically.

> It would be nice if packages that provided these files at one time would
> take responsibility for cleaning them up now, late that it is.  I'm not sure
> this could sensibly be done as a debconf snippet though.

I don’t think this could be done reliably either.

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