Re: duplicate-conffile error ???

[jmarant@nerim.net (Jérôme Marant)]

Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:

> Hello, ...
>
> I am preparing a new version of one of my packages, and lintian claims
> that :
>
> $ lintian ocaml-base-3.06-1_3.06-16_i386.deb
> E: ocaml-base-3.06-1: duplicate-conffile /etc/ocaml/ld.conf
>
> And effectively, if i open the .deb, i see that /etc/ocaml/ld.conf is
> listed two times as conffile.
>
> Now, i have debian/ocaml-base-3.06-1.conffiles which contains only one
> copy of /etc/ocaml/ld.conf, not two, so i have no idea where this second
> copy does come from.
>
> I am using debhelper, and i guess one of the debhelpers is responsible
> for this. Does anyone have an idea of where this is coming from ?

Debhelp automaticaly adds every /etc file to conffile.
So, remove this entry from ocaml-base-3.06-1.conffiles.

Cheers,

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Jérôme Marant

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