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

[Michael Kolmodin]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 03:12:49 +0530 
=?UTF-8?B?c2hpcmlzaCDgpLbgpL/gpLDgpYDgpLc=?= <shirishag75 at gmail.com> wrote:

 > 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

Hi!

hm... My strongest feeling about the debian configuration handling is 
being on thin ice. That said, all of these files exists for reason.

The hardware.conf is indeed obsolete,  and not really used from 0.9.4+. 
But the upgrade from 0.9.0 to 0.9.4 is  a breaking update requiring 
manual intervention, mostly about moving values from hardware.conf to 
lirc_options.conf. So it needs to around as reference for some cycles.

The other files  are important configuration stuff. On what ground does 
adequate deem them as "obsolete"?

Perhaps is the problem I havn't trusted the conffiles  handlng of 
configuration files but instead just created them in the maintainer 
scripts? This is because lirc has been plagued by multiple upgrade bugs 
based on this stuff, forcing user intervention. The policy here is that 
we ship e. g. lirc_options.conf.dist which is upgraded but not actually 
used. lirc_options.conf is created as a copy if lirc_options.dist if it 
does not exist, but is otherwise left as-is. Does this upset adequate?

--alec