Re: The value of unmodified conffiles left on disk of removed, but not purged, packages

2018-02-26 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 25 February 2018 at 22:42, Don Armstrong wrote: > 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

Re: The value of unmodified conffiles left on disk of removed, but not purged, packages

2018-02-25 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 04:18:45PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2018, Michael Biebl wrote: > > So dpkg would have to remember if a conffile was removed by the admin > > prior to the uninstallation. Doesn't sound too complicated to me, we > > already have an obsolete flag in the stat

Re: The value of unmodified conffiles left on disk of removed, but not purged, packages

2018-02-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018, Michael Biebl wrote: > Basically, every package which allows to be extended by other packages > via .d directories is affected. > > Take logrotated as a example and the dance e.g. rsyslog has to do in > preinst/postrm. Heh; I should have known that this hack already existed.

Re: The value of unmodified conffiles left on disk of removed, but not purged, packages

2018-02-25 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 25.02.2018 um 23:42 schrieb Don Armstrong: > 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

Re: The value of unmodified conffiles left on disk of removed, but not purged, packages

2018-02-25 Thread Don Armstrong
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 comp