Bug#813229: initramfs-tools: '/etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf' is marked as obsolete conffile

[Thilo Six <debian@Xk2c.de>]

Hello Ben,

Thank you for taking care of this.

Ben Hutchings schrieb/wrote:
-- <snip> --
>> /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf 42161705437308c44abc6d46395889c1 obsolete
> 
> It has moved to initramfs-tools-core.  If you run:
> 
>     dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | grep 'initramfs\.conf'
> 
> you should see:
> 
>  /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf 42161705437308c44abc6d46395889c1 obsolete
>  /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf 7690949b00a8a2c0fad84fa4e965b00c

confirmed. I attach the output as file, so that my MUA does not mangle it.

>> Usually the local admin can safely rm obsolete conffiles, thats not the case
>> with '/etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf' as this breaks update-initramfs.
> 
> Indeed.  I'll investigate how to handle the package split in a way that
> dpkg doesn't get confused like this.


kind regards,

     Thilo

% command dpkg-query -W -f='${Package} ${Conffiles}\n' | command grep -B 4 '/initramfs\.conf'
initramfs-tools  /etc/initramfs-tools/update-initramfs.conf e2026d4603e7161efaccca519aeb1297
 /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 1d77d3e4b57c3da299aacd44b1dc207c
 /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools f57d0b03f79fd46dd1a1fa3b00206070
 /etc/bash_completion.d/initramfs-tools 7eeb7184772f3658e7cf446945c096b1 obsolete
 /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf 42161705437308c44abc6d46395889c1 obsolete
initramfs-tools-core  /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf 7690949b00a8a2c0fad84fa4e965b00c