Bug#33040: dpkg: xntp3 conffiles live forever
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.1.1
After you upgrade from xntp3 to ntp with dselect, one still have an entry in
its status file:
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Package: xntp3
Status: deinstall ok config-files
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 375
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
Version: 5.93-3
Config-Version: 5.93-3
Replaces: xntp
Depends: awk, libc6
Conflicts: xntp
Conffiles:
/etc/cron.weekly/xntp3 4db595b81ca7ae4fda584fb92516a40d
Description: Network Time Protocol clients and server
The Network Time Protocol allows for the synchronization of clocks on
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and a lost file in /etc/cron.weekly which cannot be removed, since dselect
do not show xntp3 in its 'Obsolete/Local' section (showing it would be the
correct behavior). If the daemon didn't change its name from xntpd to ntpd, it
could lead to random breakage without even the user knowing the obsolete
'lost' file from this partially-removed package.
The right way to fix this would be to show uninstalled but not purged obsolete
packages like the installed ones.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.1
Kernel Version: Linux cesarb2 2.2.1 #1 Fri Jan 29 14:33:03 EDT 1999 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU Libc: shared libraries
ii libncurses4 4.2-3 Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii libstdc++2.9 2.91.60-5 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)
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