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

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 15:07 +0400, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: 
> Yes. We keep transitional stuff only for one Debian release.
Sure, but since GNOME maintainers forgot to do in in the last release
(respectively that release which applied) it should be appropriate to
finish homeworks now.


> I checked Svn and found out that on Debian side that directory was
> dropped in revision 27005.
I'm *quite* sure that I haven't touched anything there =)


> That probably means that you had that
> configuration file modified, and thus it was not removed.
Even then, if it would have been properly handled with dh helper
scripts, it would have been moved out of the way and renamed to
"xxx.dpkg-old", wouldn't it?


>  (Also, apt
> should have warned you in any case, about "not removing directory
> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ which has modified files").
Actually I'm one of the (probably) few people who really carefully look
for such messages in their long outputs of dpkg (it's not apt who warns
about this),... which is also one of the reason, why I open so very
often bugs about legacy config files, that aren't cleaned up ;) 

But of course... most people would simply oversee such a small error
line in the thousands of lines of output generated during an upgrade.


> There is really nothing I can do *now* to remove that file from your
> system.
Well for the reasons outlined in my previous email, I do not quite see
why you "coudln't" do anything (from a technical POV) apart from the
GNOME maintainers not willing to clean up their stuff.

Maybe we should rededicate this bug then to add a release notes item for
jessie, that people please manually clean up this file ;-)
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