Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.82
Tags: patch
The vestigial debconf `db_previous_module` command is:
1) not mentioned in the debconf specifications [1],
2) no longer used by any package in Debian [2], and
3) not implemented by cdebconf.
To avoid possible future mistakes by package maintainers, it should be
removed from `confmodule`.
A patch to remove it can be found at:
https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-debconf/debconf/-/merge_requests/14
Regards,
[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/debconf_specification.html
[2] Simple analysis using the binarycontrol archive:
wget https://binarycontrol.debian.net/cache/unstable.tar.xz
tar -xf unstable.tar.xz
grep 'db_previous_module' unstable/ -r
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Gioele Barabucci
