Bug#979057: libexo-common: obsolete conffile left behind

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2021-01-03 15:32 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:

> On Sat, 2021-01-02 at 13:18 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> Your package used to ship the conffile /etc/xdg/xfce4/helpers.rc, but no
>> longer does include it.  I presume this is done on purpose since the
>> libexo-helpers package is also gone, yet the obsolete conffile remains
>> on the system after upgrades.
>> 
>> Please refer to dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) and dh_installdeb(1) how to
>> properly clean up obsolete conffiles.
> Hi Sven,
>
> here, the conffile has been taken over by xfce4-helpers binary package which
> replaces libexo-helpers completely. And it'd be nice to keep admin
> modifications from libexo-helpers:/e/x/x/helpers.rc to xfce4-
> helpers:/e/x/x/helpers.rc so I'm unsure if we really want to do anything
> specific.

I see (only now, because I don't have xfce4-helpers installed).  That
seems to be the same situation as in #678674 which has been reassigned
to dpkg.

Cheers,
       Sven