Bug#33040: dpkg: xntp3 conffiles live forever

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Cesar.Barros@web4u.com.br writes ("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:

I think that the new ntp package should take care of xntp3's old
config files.

> ---
> 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
> ---
> 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.

Are they not listed at all ?  That's probably a bug.  Have you looked
in `Removed and no longer available packages' ?

Ian.