The recent upgrade did not deal with obsolete conffiles properly.
Please use the dpkg-maintscript-helper support provided by
dh_installdeb to remove these obsolete conffiles on upgrade.

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

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$ pkg=libgssapi-krb5-2 ; adequate $pkg ; dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' $pkg | grep obsolete
libgssapi-krb5-2:amd64: obsolete-conffile /etc/gss/mech.d/README
 /etc/gss/mech.d/README 27e753ba1dc72900d2892b8efef6e35e obsolete

How is this not a dup of #868121 (with additional discussion linked
therefrom)?

Apologies, I forgot about that bug and since it was closed I did not
see any reason to submit the bug. I suggest keeping this one open and
marking it wontfix so that myself and others do not file it again.

This issue is still not resolved in Buster, which is scheduled to become the new STABLE release tomorrow.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fi:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libgssapi-krb5-2 depends on:
ii  libc6            2.28-10
ii  libcom-err2      1.44.5-1
ii  libk5crypto3     1.17-3
ii  libkeyutils1     1.6-6
ii  libkrb5-3        1.17-3
ii  libkrb5support0  1.17-3

libgssapi-krb5-2 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libgssapi-krb5-2 suggests:
pn  krb5-doc   <none>
pn  krb5-user  <none>

- -- no debconf information
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

iHgEARECADgWIQQ0UNMMeTbhfuC5+Dp5evnrHgy5zQUCXR9uNxocbWFydGluLWVy
aWMucmFjaW5lQGlraS5maQAKCRB5evnrHgy5zUZvAJ9tZXJmKrK4KS3jprPfmKeu
baCRKgCglMcSNMSjyG+pYsY0oG0NcTfh5kk=
=ftm/
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

To me the bug history implies that it is not expected to be resolved, ever.
Do you think otherwise?  If so, what could be added to the bug history to
make that state of affairs more clear?

Thanks,

Ben

It is very much expected to be resolved.

Please see:

https://manpages.debian.org/wheezy/dpkg/dpkg-maintscript-helper.1.en.html

pe 5. heinäk. 2019 klo 18.58 Benjamin Kaduk (kaduk@mit.edu) kirjoitti:

Expected by whom?

I read most of this; it gives some general guidance that conffiles should
be removed from disk in the usual case, as well as details about good ways
to achieve that goal.
In this case, the maintainer of the package (Sam) has expressed a desire to
not remove the file.  Is there policy that overrides the maintainer's
discretion, here?

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