On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 17:12 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > do we have an estimate (via piuparts ?) on how many packages are > failing to do that?
piuparts does test for this, some stats: sid2experimental 23 testing2sid 12 squeeze2wheezy 209 squeeze2bpo2wheezy 36 lenny2squeeze 47 http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=piuparts/piuparts.git;a=blob;f=known_problems/obsolete_conffiles_error.conf;hb=HEAD Since the program 'adequate' appeared and supports checking for obsolete conffiles we have been userttagging bugs and found a few of them: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian...@lists.debian.org;tag=obsolete-conffile;archive=both On my relatively recently installed machine there are 8 obsolete conffiles: $ dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | grep obsolete | wc -l 8 On a machine that has been running for a few years with apt pinned to experimental (then sid, testing), there are 59: $ dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | grep obsolete | wc -l 59 On master.debian.org there is only one: pabs@master:~$ dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | grep obsolete | wc -l 1 So the vast majority of packages obey this suggestion. > It looks to me that the removal would happen only if the packages are > following the advices of http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling > (which now looks as simple as using dpkg-maintscript-helper via > dh_installdeb). Correct. > Maybe a few rounds of advocacy for the tools above could be done > before making the recommendation a "SHOULD" statement ? While advocacy for removing obsolete conffiles, adequate, puiparts, lintian and other QA tools is definitely a good idea, I don't think we need to do that before changing policy. Raphaël Hertzog has done some advocacy about removing obsolete conffiles in the past: http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/10/07/the-right-way-to-remove-an-obsolete-conffile-in-a-debian-package/ http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/01/31/debian-cleanup-tip-1-get-rid-of-useless-configuration-files/ -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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