Bug#704070: ffmpeg: obsolete-conffile as reported by adequate

[Reinhard Tartler]

I guess that would work, but we would need to do this update in
stable. I'm not sure if this is an issue that warrants a change in
stable, though.

For unstable/jessie, is there anything we can do but close this bug?

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Jakub Wilk <jwilk at debian.org> wrote:
> * Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com>, 2013-04-25, 22:39:
>
>>> $ adequate ffmpeg
>>> ffmpeg: obsolete-conffile /etc/ffserver.conf
>
>
> I've reproduced this bug. If you install ffmpeg on a squeeze system, and
> then upgrade to wheezy, you end up with obsolete /etc/ffserver.conf.
>
>
>> I wonder why
>> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-multimedia/libav.git;a=commitdiff;h=6c39614b2c9d4ded6a243c70326231d6a970287c
>> was not enough to fix that. Help in form of patches much appreciated!
>
>
> I thinks this is because normally mv_conffile does anything only on
> upgrades. If you never had libav-tools (<< 6:0.8.1-7) installed, the
> conffile won't be renamed.
>
> Andreas Beckmann suggested how to trick mv_conffile to also trigger on
> installs: http://lists.debian.org/52654FB8.1080209@debian.org
>
> I haven't tested if this hack works, though.
>
> --
> Jakub Wilk
>
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regards,
    Reinhard