Bug#781448: unblock (pre-approval): libcap2/1:2.24-8

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

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On 2015-03-29 15:28, Christian Kastner wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock
> 
> Hi,
> 
> in #780432 we had:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Well, even though this changed passed all my local tests safely [1],
> there are scenarios where this change leads to conffile breakage, see RC
> bug #781050.
> 
> I researched this a bit and my impression is that there is yet no safe
> and trivial way to remove a conffile from a package A (where is has
> become obsolete) after it has been moved to another package B (but B
> might not be installed). See [2] and [3], for example.
> 
> The attached debdiff drops debian/libcap2-bin.maintscript. This means
> that #768229 will have to be reopened, but I'd rather accept this wart
> than attempt any non-trivial solution this late in the freeze.
> 
> The debdiff also contains a trivial and obvious fix for debian/watch,
> would that be OK?
> 
> Regards,
> Christian
> 
> [...]

Hi Christian,

Thanks for looking into it.

Indeed, I would also rather have  an obsolete conffile than ending up
with the #781050 in a released Jessie.

Please go ahead with this solution - feel free to include the watch-file
change as well.

Thanks,
~Niels