Re: Taking over conffiles from other packages while cleaning up properly [Re: Problems detected: package initscripts left obsolete init.d script behind]

[Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>]

Am 08.02.2012 22:28, schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Could you give a short example how postinst would look like for the case
> that package foo is split int foo in version 1.0-1

Making the example a bit more verbose:

before the split:
binary package foo:
 /bin/foo
 /bin/bar
 /etc/foo.conf
 /etc/bar.conf
(both marked as conffiles)

after the split (done in version 1.0-1):
binary package foo:
 /bin/foo
 /etc/foo.conf
binary package bar:
 /bin/bar
 /etc/bar.conf


Package foo in version 1.0-1 does not have a dependency on bar, so bar 
is not guaranteed to be installed.
There is also the case, where bar has been split off upstream into a 
separate src package, but I assume this can be handled equally.

Now I'm interested how the maintainer scripts have to look like, so we 
don't get any obsolete conffiles in foo.

Cheers,
Michael
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