Bug#929165: How to use rm_conffile to remove files that contain empty " ", comma "," and wildcard "*"?

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de>]

On 2021-03-07 Hideki Yamane <henrich@iijmio-mail.jp> wrote:
> X-debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>  I've tried to remove files that was accidentally containts empty " ",
>  comma "," and wildcard "*" via rm_conffile from dpkg-maintscript-helper.

>  However, it returns an error like below.

> > dh_installdeb: error: The current conffile path for rm_conffile must be present and absolute, got '/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2016-dbgsym.gpg,

>  I've specified it like below.

> > # cat debian/ubuntu-dbgsym-keyring.maintscript
> > rm_conffile '/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2016-dbgsym.gpg, *'
[...]
>  How to use rm_conffile to remove such files that contains empty, comma
>  and * in its filenames?

Hello,

I think that might be a dh_installdeb error, it seems to check whether
the first character is a '/', and does not account for possible quoting
characters.

This might work around this
rm_conffile /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2016-dbgsym.gpg,\ \*

BTW you should really specify [prior-version and [package].

cu Andreas
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