#1106560 modernize-sources also converts other packages' conffiles

Package:
apt
Source:
apt
Description:
commandline package manager
Submitter:
Simon Richter
Date:
2025-05-26 03:11:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1106560#5
Date:
2025-05-26 03:08:09 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

Microsoft's VSCode repository still ships an old-style format file, as a
conffile. Running modernize-sources on this creates a non-working
configuration, which is one problem -- but this also touches a conffile
belonging to another package (which is technically a policy violation),
which will break the update when Microsoft starts shipping a deb822
style file.

Ideally, modernize-sources should ignore any existing files that are
registered with dpkg.

   Simon