[Logcheck-devel] Bug#453519: Bug#453519: logcheck-database: amavisd-new file looks like the one shipped by amavisd-new

[Russ Allbery]

Frédéric Brière <fbriere at fbriere.net> writes:
> In article <20071130003240.GA32509 at ortie> you wrote:
>> Version: 1.2.63
>>
>> The content of the file
>> /etc/logcheck/violations.ignore.d/logcheck-amavisd-new is contained
>> already in /etc/logcheck/violations.ignore.d/amavisd-new (this one
>> shipped with amavisd-new).
>
> Both amavisd-new rules files were removed in 1.2.63 for that exact
> reason.  Are you saying that they are still present on your machine?

Conffiles are not automatically deleted on upgrade.  You have to remove
them in the postinst of the package and you have to manually check first
if they're unmodified.

There's a recipe for how to do this at:

http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>