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

[Paul Wise]

dpkg doesn't handle removal of conffiles when they disappear from
packages, so the package postinst files need to handle removing
obsolete unmodified conffiles from user systems to avoid cruft
building up.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 12:49 AM, shirish शिरीष wrote:

> If there are any simple commands or something which I should have used
> to dig more please share those as well so I could use them the next
> time something similar comes around.

I use this in my template for conffile handling bugs:

pkg=lirc
adequate $pkg
dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' $pkg | grep obsolete

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pabs

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