Bug#1036526: needrestart: leftover conffiles

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Package: needrestart
Version: 3.6-3
Severity: normal


Hey.

Apparently the package used to contain the following conffile, but no longer
does so:
# dpkg-query --showformat='${Package}\n${Conffiles}\n' --show | awk '/^[^ ]/{pkg=$1}/ obsolete$/{print pkg,$0}' | cut -d ' ' -f 1-3 | column -t
needrestart /etc/needrestart/hook.d/30-pacman

Could you please clean that up on a future upgrade?


Thanks,
Chris.

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

btw: The reason for the file not being cleaned up is that a wrong
version is used in the maintainer scripts:

dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile /etc/needrestart/hook.d/30-pacman 3.5-4 -- "$@"

But according to changelog.Debian, it was removed in 3.5-5.

dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) says:
prior-version
Defines the latest version of the package whose upgrade should
trigger the operation.
...
For example, for a conffile removed in version 2.0-1 of a package,
prior-version should be set to 2.0-1~. This will cause the conffile
to be removed even if the user rebuilt the previous version 1.0-1
as 1.0-1local1. Or a package switching a path from a symlink
(shipped in version 1.0-1) to a directory (shipped in version
2.0-1), but only performing the actual switch in the maintainer
scripts in version 3.0-1, should set prior-version to 3.0-1~.


So in your case, this was never executed anywhere.

It needs to be aligned to the future version of the package, where this
is fixed, instead.