On Sat January 15 2011 18:02:06 Russ Allbery wrote: > Judging from further discussion, it looks like the reason why I've never > seen this is that I routinely purge deinstalled packages on all my > systems and most of the problems are with packages that have been > deinstalled but not purged and have obsolete init scripts. I wonder if we > should suggest people consider doing that before the upgrade if they don't > have any old configuration files around that they care about.
I don't think that will work, although I don't understand why. Here's an example from one of our upgrade tests. The package is installed but has obsolete conffiles and thereby caused insserv setup to fail. --Mike Bird # dpkg -s bittorrent Package: bittorrent Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 588 Maintainer: Michael Janssen <jamu...@debian.org> Architecture: all Version: 3.4.2-11.3 Depends: python (>= 2.3), python-support (>= 0.90.0), lsb-base (>= 3.0-10) Recommends: mime-support Suggests: bittorrent-gui Conffiles: /etc/init.d/bittorrent 128966d79d03469e179f57d6210f2b47 obsolete /etc/default/bittorrent 1a6947090e36f417eb508953794dc303 obsolete Description: Original BitTorent client - console tools <snip> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201101151825.37388.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net
