Debian Bug report logs - #890825
dpkg: Support dynamic pathname registration into packages

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Add a way to specify "ghost" files for files/dir created by maintscripts or applications

Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:50:28 +0100

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.19.0.5
Severity: wishlist

In the rpm world, there is a way to define in the list of files, files
that are not installed by the package, but by the maintainer scripts (or
later created by the application itself).

It would be nice to have that kind of functionality as it allows the user
to immediately know the pkg that owns the file (without looking at the
maintainer scripts) and also maybe for maintainer so they don't need to
manually rm the file in postrm scripts.

Kind regards,

Laurent Bigonville

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: SELinux: enabled - Mode: Permissive - Policy name: refpolicy

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0   1.0.6-8.1
ii  libc6        2.26-6
ii  liblzma5     5.2.2-1.3
ii  libselinux1  2.7-2+b1
ii  tar          1.29b-2
ii  zlib1g       1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

dpkg recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii  apt            1.6~alpha7
pn  debsig-verify  <none>

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 890825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

To: Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>, 890825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#890825: Add a way to specify "ghost" files for files/dir created by maintscripts or applications

Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:46:13 +0100

Control: forcemerge 672608 -1

On Mon, 2018-02-19 at 13:50:28 +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.19.0.5
> Severity: wishlist

> In the rpm world, there is a way to define in the list of files, files
> that are not installed by the package, but by the maintainer scripts (or
> later created by the application itself).
> 
> It would be nice to have that kind of functionality as it allows the user
> to immediately know the pkg that owns the file (without looking at the
> maintainer scripts) and also maybe for maintainer so they don't need to
> manually rm the file in postrm scripts.

Yes, already filed and planned, :) but this needs the new metadata
database changes. Its deployment and blockers are currently being
tracked at:

  <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/MetadataTracking>

Thanks,
Guillem

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