#1112037 zmap: conffiles not removed: /etc/zmap/blacklist.conf

Package:
zmap
Source:
zmap
Description:
network scanner for researchers
Submitter:
Paul Wise
Date:
2025-08-25 14:19:05 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1112037#5
Date:
2025-08-25 14:16:22 UTC
From:
To:
The recent upgrade did not deal with obsolete conffiles properly.
Please use the dpkg-maintscript-helper support provided by
dh_installdeb to move these renamed conffiles on upgrade.

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files
https://manpages.debian.org/man/1/dh_installdeb

This bug report brought to you by adequate:

https://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2013/02/23/inadequate-software/

$ p=zmap ; adequate $p ; dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' $p | grep obsolete
zmap: obsolete-conffile /etc/zmap/blacklist.conf
 /etc/zmap/blacklist.conf 8a94036baa840b8e90ff35fdc35d1e13 obsolete