On 2025-01-29 17:59:41 +1100, Craig Small wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2025 at 09:27, Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> wrote: > > > With 2:4.0.4-7, it is still listed, but now appears as > > > > Conffiles: > > /etc/sysctl.conf newconffile remove-on-upgrade > > > It's not very clear from the documentation, but that looks correct.
I don't see much documentation (nothing in the dpkg(1) man page about that). And the deb-conffiles(5) man page says: There is currently only one flag supported, remove-on-upgrade, to mark that a conffile needs to be removed on the next upgrade (since dpkg 1.20.6). but since the conffile has *already* been removed, this looks incorrect. And I couldn't find any documentation of "newconffile". > The fact that "dpkg -s procps", for example, shows this line is not a bug. > > The bug was certain programs would complain about the missing file. > I note the example given for reportbug is fixed and it no longer complains. Indeed, I could check that reportbug 13.0.1 no longer complains (there was a fix/workaround in reportbug 13.0.2 about missing conffiles, so that testing 13.0.1, which was the current version when I reported the bug, was important). This is probably OK for programs. But for the end user, this is confusing. > So unless there is another program that has a problem with the file then > this bug > is fixed. It's not the only packages with files in this state: > > $ dpkg -s | grep 'newconffile remove-on-upgrade' > /etc/gnome/defaults.list newconffile remove-on-upgrade > /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.conf newconffile > remove-on-upgrade > /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.PackageKit.conf newconffile > remove-on-upgrade > /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/pkg-config-hook-config newconffile remove-on-upgrade > /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/pkgconf-hook-config newconffile remove-on-upgrade > /etc/postfix/postfix-script newconffile remove-on-upgrade > /etc/postfix/post-install newconffile remove-on-upgrade > /etc/sysctl.conf newconffile remove-on-upgrade > /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.realmd.conf newconffile > remove-on-upgrade > /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.rpm.conf newconffile remove-on-upgrade > /etc/dbus-1/system.d/wpa_supplicant.conf newconffile remove-on-upgrade So perhaps the procps part is fixed in procps/2:4.0.4-7, but there is still an issue on the dpkg side, at least missing documentation. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
