#1090823 network-manager-gnome: leftover conffiles

Package:
network-manager-gnome
Source:
network-manager-gnome
Description:
network management framework (GNOME frontend)
Submitter:
Christoph Anton Mitterer
Date:
2026-06-09 01:29:05 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1090823#5
Date:
2024-12-19 17:07:53 UTC
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Hi.

Apparently the package used to ship /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop as a DPKG
conffile, but not longer does so (at least not as a DPKG conffile).

The conffile was however not properly unregistered when it was dropped:
# dpkg-query --showformat='${Package}\n${Conffiles}\n' --show  |  awk '/^[^ ]/{pkg=$1}/ obsolete$/{print pkg,$0}' | cut -d ' ' -f 1-3 | column -t
network-manager-gnome  /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop

Could you please do so in a future upgrade to the package?

Thanks,
Chris.
#1090823#10
Date:
2024-12-20 21:18:49 UTC
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Am 19.12.24 um 18:07 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer:

There are no mechanisms provided by dpkg to transfer over conffiles from
one package to another. The best you can do is to use Replaces.
This is a shortcoming of dpkg (and its ecosystem) and I'm afraid there
is nothing really that I can do about that in
network-manager-(gnome,applet). You might want to raise that with the
dpkg maintainers.

At this point, I'm inclined to close this as wontfix.


Michael
#1090823#15
Date:
2024-12-20 21:20:36 UTC
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Am 20.12.24 um 22:18 schrieb Michael Biebl:
network-manager-applet. The network-manager-applet package does have a
Replaces: network-manager-gnome to take over (conf)files from
network-manager-gnome.
#1090823#20
Date:
2024-12-20 21:22:52 UTC
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Am 20.12.24 um 22:18 schrieb Michael Biebl:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=595112

I'm not holding my breath to have a fix for this anytime soon.
#1090823#25
Date:
2024-12-20 21:39:59 UTC
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Hey Michael.

Shouldn't we rather reassign the bug then to dpkg? :-)


Cheers,
Chris.
#1090823#30
Date:
2024-12-20 21:52:57 UTC
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Am 20.12.24 um 22:39 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer:

I don't think it will make a huge difference to merge it with #595112
and its duplicate, but sure, if you prefer that, we can do that.

Personally, I would have preferred to keep this bug report assigned to
network-manager-gnome and have it blocked by #595112 if there is a
realistic chance to have a fix for #595112 in trixie.
But since it's unlikely that this issue is addressed in dpkg any time
soon, once the fix becomes available, it is no longer relevant for
network-manager-gnome, as I plan to drop this transitional
network-manager-gnome package in trixie+1.

Sorry, I know this is disappointing.

Regards,
Michael
#1090823#41
Date:
2024-12-20 22:00:00 UTC
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Well than leave it as that :-)
I'm fine with either.

Nah,... it's okay... I merely reported it in good faith when I saw it,
but didn't check deep enough to see that it's that "well known" issue
(sorry).


Best wishes,
Chris.