[Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#851618: lirc: adequate reports multiple obsolete-conffiles for lirc Package: lirc

[shirish शिरीष]

Package:lirc
Version: 0.9.4c-7
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
Adequate reported multiple obsolete-conffiles for lirc -

[$] adequate lirc

lirc: obsolete-conffile /etc/lirc/irexec.lircrc
lirc: obsolete-conffile /etc/lirc/lircmd.conf
lirc: obsolete-conffile /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
lirc: obsolete-conffile /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
lirc: obsolete-conffile /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf

Maybe you could use what pabs (Paul Wise) did in #815563, in that the
proper thing to do would be -

Use the dpkg-maintscript-helper support provided by dh_installdeb to
remove such similar obsolete conffiles on upgrade

Also https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files

You can also see manpage of dh_installdeb vid debhelper package which
is the same thing.

I ran the same command as he did -

[$] pkg=lirc ; adequate $pkg ; dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' $pkg
| grep obsolete
[1:34:10]
lirc: obsolete-conffile /etc/lirc/irexec.lircrc
lirc: obsolete-conffile /etc/lirc/lircmd.conf
lirc: obsolete-conffile /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
lirc: obsolete-conffile /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
lirc: obsolete-conffile /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf
 /etc/lirc/irexec.lircrc 92df549c82f58ea28b605e5045984e04 obsolete
 /etc/lirc/lircmd.conf eca53bdc53bd5edc63cf06a4cff16b0d obsolete
 /etc/lirc/hardware.conf c07d8ba96f0df23488e1318dd95ff364 obsolete
 /etc/lirc/lircd.conf e5b59f3ea89c5c1fd838e506cec6cba0 obsolete
 /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf d2664e84bab19f7f36628d1de3f273dd obsolete

You could potentially use

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;tag=obsolete-conffile;users=debian-qa@lists.debian.org#_4_3_5

OR/and

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;tag=obsolete-conffile;users=debian-qa@lists.debian.org#_4_4_5

All of the bugs which are resolved therein are the same obsolete
conffile issues.

Hope the above helps in getting the above fixed.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500,
'testing-debug'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental'), (1,
'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lirc depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.46
ii  libasound2           1.1.2-1
ii  libc6                2.24-8
ii  libftdi1-2           1.3-2
ii  libgcc1              1:6.2.1-5
ii  liblirc-client0      0.9.4c-7
ii  liblirc0             0.9.4c-7
ii  libportaudio2        19.6.0-1
ii  libstdc++6           6.2.1-5
ii  libudev1             232-8
ii  libusb-0.1-4         2:0.1.12-30
ii  libusb-1.0-0         2:1.0.21-1
ii  lsb-base             9.20161125
ii  python3              3.5.1-4

lirc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lirc suggests:
pn  ir-keytable          <none>
pn  lirc-compat-remotes  <none>
pn  lirc-doc             <none>
pn  lirc-drv-irman       <none>
pn  lirc-x               <none>
pn  setserial            <none>

-- no debconf information

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