Fwd: procps_4.0.5-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

Hi,

I'm trying to work out why lintian had an issue with the new procps package.

There's two odd things about it:

1) The error comes up on the debian FTP server (v2.104.0) but not locally (v2.121.1). I think the relevant file checks/conffiles was last changed 15 years ago.

2) The error is saying the conffile is not in /etc but /etc/sysctl.conf is clearly in that directory.

I'm stuck here because I have an error that doesn't make any sense to me.

- Craig

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Thorsten Alteholz <debian@alteholz.de>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 at 23:36
Subject: Re: procps_4.0.5-1_amd64.changes REJECTED
To: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>, Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

Hi Craig,

On 15.02.25 00:25, Craig Small wrote:

On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 at 21:38, Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org> wrote:

procps: lintian output: 'non-etc-file-marked-as-conffile remove-on-upgrade /etc/sysctl.conf', automatically rejected package.
procps: If you have a good reason, you may override this lintian tag.

Could you explain to me how the file /etc/sysctl.conf is not a file in /etc?

I need this line to fix #1085130

this question would be better asked the lintian people, wouldn't it?

Also, I don't get this message:
csmall@elmo:~/Debian/procps/procps$ lintian --version
Lintian v2.121.1

The lintian version on fasolo is v2.104.0.

Thorsten