Re: Why is help so hard to find?
Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:54 AM, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
>> It's the responsibility of packages to clean up obsolete conffiles as
>> they're upgraded. If you run into the case of a package that's been
>> upgraded and not cleaned up its obsolete conffiles, and there isn't
>> some reason for that, that's worth a bug report. Too late for this
>> release, probably, of course....
> Shouldn't this be the responsibility of the package manager?
The package manager doesn't have enough information to know what the
correct thing to do with obsolete conffiles is, and the package manager
doesn't know anything about non-conffile configuration files at all.
> Otherwise it sounds like a big code duplication problem.
That's why dpkg-maintscript-helper exists.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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