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| author |  Santiago Vila <[email protected]> | 2024-05-03 18:01:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Santiago Vila <[email protected]> | 2024-05-03 18:48:28 +0200 |
| commit | 067f4126b633201d43bb3947054332da1753be15 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a16a8345283681f2552f44201aa1aac0afaacbc /debian | |
| parent | 20649e33d4426c97fa3c60e743387093161d3f45 (diff) | |
| download | base-files-067f4126b633201d43bb3947054332da1753be15.tar.gz base-files-067f4126b633201d43bb3947054332da1753be15.zip | |
Document that /etc/profile is not a conffile anymore. Closes: #868095.
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diff --git a/debian/README b/debian/README index 9ced2ea..9cc76c8 100644 --- a/debian/README +++ b/debian/README @@ -95,5 +95,12 @@ freedom to remove those directories without them being created again when base-files is upgraded. Therefore, if you are running any sort of compliance tests, you should do it on newly installed systems only. +Q. My system (when I do "dpkg -s base-files") shows /etc/profile as +an "obsolete conffile". Is this ok? + +A. Yes. The file was handled by base-files as a conffile in the dpkg sense +in the past, so dpkg may consider the file as an obsolete conffile. +There is currently not a way to tell dpkg to unregister it as a conffile +without removing it, so the best approach for now is to do nothing about it. Santiago Vila <[email protected]> |