Re: cruft report: The new kid on the block

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2024-02-16 09:06 -0500, Gremlin wrote:

> cruft report: Fri Feb 16 08:54:01 2024
> ---- missing: dpkg ----
>         /etc/network/if-post-down.d/wireless-tools
>         /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/ethtool
>         /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools
>         /etc/network/if-up.d/ethtool
>
> wireless-tools and ethtool owns these files but are missing from the
> system, ie MIA

That is not supposed to happen, but it is hard to tell who removed these
files, when and why.  The etckeeper tool can help to track down such
changes.

> Doing a reinstall does not recreate them, why?

Because these files are conffiles, and the admin is free to edit or
delete them; dpkg will respect these changes and not reinstate missing
conffiles, unless given the "--force-confmiss" option.

Cheers,
       Sven