Bug#809386: iceweasel: leftover legacy config file

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 06:22:11AM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-12-30 at 14:04 +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > │   ├── debsearch.xml
> > This file still exists.
> Yes, I've seen it shortly after... and just didn't want to make more
> noise in the bug. =)
> 
> 
> > > │   └── opensearch_html.xml
> > 
> > This file has never been part of iceweasel. So either you placed it
> > here
> > and you don't remember, or some other package did.
> Then it was rather some other package (which in turn didn't clean up),
> cause the file apparently contained some stuff for DuckDuckGo and I've
> never used that...
> 
> 
> > 
> > > └── locale
> > >     └── en-US
> > > 
> > > As before, the two regular files were neither created nor modified
> > > by
> > > myself, so they and the empty dirs should be be cleaned up properly
> > > in
> > > a future package version :-)
> > 
> > Seems like this should be handled by dpkg itself in a better way, or
> > debhelper, because iceweasel is merely using dpkg-maintscript-helper
> > through dh_installdeb.
> 
> Hmm quite often, when dpkg-maintscript-helpers handly legacy config
> files, I see a message first that the config file "has been moved out
> of the way"... and only at the end there's the actual remove (as it was
> here as well).
> Could it possibly be, that some step or parameter might have been
> forgotten?

I don't think so.

Mike