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

[Alec Leamas]

On 19/01/17 12:01, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-01-19 at 11:41 +0100, Alec Leamas wrote:
>
>> OK, leaving  bug open for a day or two in case submitter wants to
>> re-assign it to dpkg. Will otherwise eventually close it since it
>> doesn't seem to be a lirc bug.
>
> This is incorrect, it is a lirc bug. When conffiles are renamed,
> this must be handled by the package, not by dpkg.
>
> https://packages.debian.org/jessie/amd64/lirc/filelist
> https://packages.debian.org/stretch/amd64/lirc/filelist
>
> Feel free to ask the dpkg developers if you don't believe me.

Hey, I'm pretty new in the Debian world. Of course I believe you. I just 
try be be clear on how I understand the situation. That's not to say I'm 
sure I'm right, but I do get a reply. Thanks for that!

That said, I have absolutely no idea what this means. In particular, 
this is nothing like a rename. It's more like retiring hardware.conf 
(which was a debian only thing) and replacing it with the upstream 
configuration spread over several files. But also keeping some files e. 
g., lircd.conf.

The update is a breaking one, requiring manual intervention. I have 
tried to handle it to the best of my (limited) abilities.

Also, again, due to a some bad bugs related to how the hardware.conf 
file was (mis-)handled, I decided to go for my own system: ship the 
upstream files as e. g., lirc_options.conf.dist which is updated but not 
used, and create lirc_options.conf if it doesn't exist. In other words, 
I don't try to merge possible upstream changes, just to keep the *dist 
files around as reference.

So, since this is a bug, have you any pointer/idea how to resolve it?

Cheers!

--alec