Bug#762364: gnome-panel-data: doesn't clean up old config file :

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 14:37 +0400, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: 
> It was dropped in 2010 (see [1]), and wheezy doesn't have that file.
> So too late to fix it, even if it is a bug.
Even if that's a long while ago, why does it mean that it can't be
cleaned up anymore?

I mean it happens every now and then that maintainers forget to properly
handle old config files, which they do then in on of the next releases -
what's the difference if there is two weeks in between or 4 years?
There should be dh helper routines to mark such file obsolete, and if
its there it's removed and if not nothing happens.

Otherwise all people who ever had gnome-panel-data installed will live
with stale:
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.gnome.ClockApplet.Mechanism.conf
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/
/etc/dbus-1/

forever.


Cheers,
Chris.
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