From 067f4126b633201d43bb3947054332da1753be15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Santiago Vila Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 18:01:00 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Document that /etc/profile is not a conffile anymore. Closes: #868095. --- debian/README | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) 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