On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I just became aware recently that upstart has been removed from the > archive (unstable/testing) [1]. > > Now I'm wondering what to do about the upstart job files that were added > to various packages. Do we > - continue to ship them, assuming we have users that keep upstart > installed when upgrading to stretch. > - drop them from the package but don't remove the obsolete conffiles. > This would mean we keep the upstart jobs on upgrades. (probably makes > our debian qa people unhappy though, who run adequate)
The latter seems like an undesirable. Packages should be orphaning conffiles as little as possible. -- Cameron Norman
