Bug#800769: pbuilder: conffiles not removed

[Paul Wise]

Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.219
Severity: normal
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: obsolete-conffile adequate

The recent upgrade did not deal with obsolete conffiles properly.
Please use the dpkg-maintscript-helper support provided by dh_installdeb
to remove these obsolete conffiles on upgrade.

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files
http://manpages.debian.org/man/1/dh_installdeb

This bug report brought to you by adequate:

http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2013/02/23/inadequate-software/

$ pkg=pbuilder ; adequate $pkg ; dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' $pkg | grep obsolete
pbuilder: obsolete-conffile /etc/pbuilder/pbuilder-uml.conf
 /etc/pbuilder/pbuilder-uml.conf ce1832f09d721efe29b92ec153fa4410 obsolete

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (860, 'testing-proposed-updates'),
(850, 'buildd-testing-proposed-updates'), (800, 'unstable'), (790,
'buildd-unstable'), (700, 'experimental'), (690, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
ii  coreutils              8.23-4
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.57
ii  debianutils            4.5.1
ii  debootstrap            1.0.72
ii  dpkg-dev               1.18.3
ii  wget                   1.16.3-3

Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
ii  devscripts  2.15.8
ii  fakeroot    1.20.2-1
ii  iproute2    4.1.1-1
ii  net-tools   1.60+git20150829.73cef8a-1
ii  sudo        1.8.12-1

Versions of packages pbuilder suggests:
ii  cowdancer     0.73
ii  gdebi-core    0.9.5.7
pn  pbuilder-uml  <none>

-- debconf information excluded

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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