Bug#673609: Obsolete conffile /etc/gtk-2.0/im-multipress.conf not removed

[Josh Triplett]

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 11:22:04AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On 20.05.2012 08:34, Josh Triplett wrote:
> 
> > libgtk2.0-common no longer ships /etc/gtk-2.0/im-multipress.conf, but
> > does not clean it up via dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile.  Since
> > dpkg doesn't remove conffiles when a package stops shipping them, the
> > obsolete conffile remains on the system.  Please consider adding an
> > appropriate invocation of dpkg-maintscript-helper's rm_conffile helper
> > to the libgtk2.0-common maintainer scripts.
> 
> /etc/gtk-2.0/im-multipress.conf is not an obsolete conffile.
> See http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/libgtk2.0-common/filelist

How very strange.  Then how could it have ended up showing up as an
obsolete conffile on my system?  I have libgtk2.0-common 2.24.10-1
installed, and dpkg-status showed /etc/gtk-2.0/im-multipress.conf as an
obsolete conffile.

I just downloaded libgtk2.0-common_2.24.10-1_all.deb and reinstalled it
via dpkg with --force-confmiss, and got the conffile back; however, it
then immediately showed up as obsolete again:

~$ grep-status -FConffiles ' obsolete' -sPackage,Conffiles
Package: libgtk2.0-0
Conffiles: 
 /etc/gtk-2.0/im-multipress.conf c358838e1789c1d4e6da7f525fc922cf obsolete

Thoughts?

- Josh Triplett