Bug#894484: evolution: conffiles not removed

[Paul Wise]

Package: evolution
Version: 3.28.0-3
Severity: normal
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: obsolete-conffile adequate

The recent upgrade did not deal with obsolete conffiles properly.
Please use the dpkg-maintscript-helper support provided by
dh_installdeb to remove these obsolete conffiles on upgrade.

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files
https://manpages.debian.org/man/1/dh_installdeb

This bug report brought to you by adequate:

http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2013/02/23/inadequate-software/

$ pkg=evolution ; adequate $pkg ; dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' $pkg | grep obsolete
evolution: obsolete-conffile /etc/xdg/autostart/evolution-alarm-notify.desktop
 /etc/xdg/autostart/evolution-alarm-notify.desktop 7372d76421ab6b272b8d5f3f97ecd161 obsolete

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (790, 'buildd-unstable'), (700, 'experimental-debug'), (700, 'experimental'), (690, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages evolution depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.12.6-2
ii  evolution-common       3.28.0-3
ii  evolution-data-server  3.28.0-2
ii  libc6                  2.27-2
ii  libcamel-1.2-61        3.28.0-2
ii  libclutter-gtk-1.0-0   1.8.4-3
ii  libecal-1.2-19         3.28.0-2
ii  libedataserver-1.2-23  3.28.0-2
ii  libevolution           3.28.0-3
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.56.0-4
ii  libgtk-3-0             3.22.29-2
ii  libical3               3.0.1-5
ii  libnotify4             0.7.7-3
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.62.0-1
ii  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37   2.20.0-2
ii  libxml2                2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1
ii  psmisc                 23.1-1

Versions of packages evolution recommends:
ii  evolution-plugin-pstimport     3.28.0-3
ii  evolution-plugin-spamassassin  3.28.0-3
ii  evolution-plugins              3.28.0-3
ii  yelp                           3.26.0-2

Versions of packages evolution suggests:
pn  evolution-ews                   <none>
ii  evolution-plugins-experimental  3.28.0-3
ii  gnupg                           2.2.5-1
ii  network-manager                 1.10.6-2

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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