On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 at 20:37, James Addison <j...@jp-hosting.net> wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 at 18:18, Alexandre Detiste > <alexandre.deti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > In a later step we could discard unmodified config files based on a list of > > md5sum of what shipped in stable release. > > > > So only users of default settings would get the new default settings. > > Ok; and it seems the relevant query term / name for this situation is > "obsolete conffile". > > There's a useful writeup about conffile handling in general - > including that style of md5-based removal - on the wiki at: > https://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling
...and also note: much of the guidance on that page has been superseded by functionality in dpkg; it may still be useful as history/context, but the current workflows are documented in: https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/dpkg/dpkg-maintscript-helper.1.en.html (apologies if I'm duplicating things you both already know.. I'm trying to get a grasp for what options the current tooling provides for this)
