Re: Stale file in Debian after change of equivs package

[mad <mad@sharktooth.de>]

Perfect! That what I was searching for. The configuration is marked as
obsolete! Thank you!

Am 02.12.2014 um 23:29 schrieb Bob Proulx:
> Don Armstrong wrote:
>> mad wrote:
>>> I am using equivs to create simple packages with dependencies
>>> and a few files.
>>> 
>>> Now I removed one file from the equivs package and installed
>>> the resulting deb file. The deb file does not contain the file
>>> but dpkg did not remove the old file and says that the file
>>> belongs to the package.
>>> 
>>> What did I do wrong?
>> 
>> Files in /etc are usually conffiles, which are not removed on
>> upgrade by default. Presumably equivs is following standard
>> practice, and marking them as such unless you do work to avoid
>> it.
> 
> Likely.  If so you can test for this by querying the package
> database.
> 
> dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' foopackagenamehere
> 
> That will list out the files from that package along with the
> checksum of it.  If you want a full dump from the system then don't
> specify a package name.  But then better "page" it or grep for just
> what you want.  I have 121 of them on my system from various
> packages.
> 
> dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | grep obsolete
> 
> Bob
>