Bug#650000: Stray file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/system-tools-backends.conf.dpkg-remove left after upgrade

[Paul Menzel]

Am Samstag, den 26.11.2011, 12:15 +0000 schrieb Sam Morris:
> On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 14:04 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > That's the code in preinst. So either your system-tools-backends.conf
> > file was modified, or the sha1 in preinst is incorrect.
> 
> The diff between the file shipped by system-tools-backend in lenny and
> the obsolete file on my system:
> 
>         $ diff -u /tmp/foo/etc/dbus-1/system.d/system-tools-backends.conf /etc/dbus-1/system.d/system-tools-backends.conf.dpkg-remove 
>         --- /tmp/foo/etc/dbus-1/system.d/system-tools-backends.conf	2010-01-04 19:54:42.000000000 +0000
>         +++ /etc/dbus-1/system.d/system-tools-backends.conf.dpkg-remove	2009-04-14 20:32:56.150110375 +0100
>         @@ -22,10 +22,8 @@
>              <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends.Platform" send_member="getPlatform"/>
>              -->
>          
>         -    <!-- configuration modules can't be accessed directly... -->
>         -    <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends"/>
>         -    <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends.Platform"/>
>         -    <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends"/>
>         +    <!-- Only allow talking to the dispatcher -->
>         +    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends"/>
>            </policy>
>          
>            <policy user="0">
>         @@ -60,8 +58,4 @@
>              <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends.UserConfig"/>
>              <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends.UsersConfig"/>
>            </policy>
>         -  <policy group="stb-admin">
>         -    <!-- be able to speak to the dispatcher -->
>         -    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends"/>
>         -  </policy>
>          </busconfig>

I have the same leftover file and the checksum therefore differs.

        $ sha1sum /etc/dbus-1/system.d/system-tools-backends.conf.dpkg-remove 
        1be2394739e54132aebed6ea579c9de5e10cefa0  /etc/dbus-1/system.d/system-tools-backends.conf.dpkg-remove
        $ LANG=C ls -l /etc/dbus-1/system.d/system-tools-backends.conf.dpkg-remove
        -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3386 Mar 12  2009 /etc/dbus-1/system.d/system-tools-backends.conf.dpkg-remove

> I'm guessing this came from a version of the package in-between the one
> in lenny and the one in squeeze. If that's the case then the upgrade
> code wouldn't remove the file since it only expects you to upgrade from
> lenny to squeeze.
> 
> Assuming that dbus ignores configuration files files named *.dpkg-*, it
> seems un-necessary to fix the package to handle this upgrade (assuming
> that that is where this version of the file even came from), so I'm
> closing the bug.

True. But it would be nice to also have this file removed. Maybe add a
note to `README.Debian`?


Thanks,

Paul
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