On Sun, 25 Feb 2018, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > A couple of conffiles were /etc/X11/Xsession.d/00upstart and > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99upstart which assumed that upstart would be > alwasy be available, and in bionic after the above described update > started to error out, and prevent gdm3 from completing a login.
Conffiles which continue to have an effect on the system after their package has been removed seems like a bug to me. I'd be tempted in this case to provide a transitional upstart package which fixed these conffiles to properly test for upstart.[1] > Surely, there is no value in keeping them on disk, and unmodified > conffiles should be removed, upon package removal. > > Thoughts? This breaks the expectation that `apt remove foo; apt install foo;` would lead to foo working with the same configuration if deletion of configuration files is meaningful for foo. [For example, apache operates this way.] 1: Though this sort of guarding is easy for Xsession.d, I'm certain that there are configuration systems where this is not easy to implement. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
