[Bug 2015778] Re: conffile prompt during release upgrade

[Nick Rosbrook]

We think the problem is that in kinetic, binutils did not declare
/etc/gprofng.rc as a conffile (although it was shipped), but in Lunar
debian/binutils-common.conffiles was added. This means that dpkg thinks
the existing /etc/gprofng.rc was created by the user.

I am waiting on a PPA build to test a fix.

** Changed in: binutils (Ubuntu Lunar)
       Status: New => Triaged

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Title:
  conffile prompt during release upgrade

Status in binutils package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in binutils source package in Lunar:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I was upgrading from Kinetic to Lunar today and received a question
  about a configuration file I had not touched.

  Setting up binutils-common:amd64 (2.40-2ubuntu3) ...^M
  ^M
  Configuration file '/etc/gprofng.rc'^M
   ==> File on system created by you or by a script.^M
   ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.^M
     What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:^M
      Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version^M
      N or O  : keep your currently-installed version^M
        D     : show the differences between the versions^M
        Z     : start a shell to examine the situation^M
   The default action is to keep your current version.^M
  *** gprofng.rc (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? d^M
  ^[[?1h^[=^M--- /etc/gprofng.rc     2022-12-01 03:11:36.000000000 -0800^[[m^M
  +++ /etc/gprofng.rc.dpkg-new    2023-03-05 00:47:46.000000000 -0800^[[m^M
  @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@^[[m^M
  -#   Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.^[[m^M
  +#   Copyright (C) 2021-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.^[[m^M
   #^[[m^M
   # This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify^[[m^M
   # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by^[[m^M
  ^M^[[K^[[?1l^[>^M 
  Configuration file '/etc/gprofng.rc'^M
   ==> File on system created by you or by a script.^M
   ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.^M
     What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:^M
      Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version^M
      N or O  : keep your currently-installed version^M
        D     : show the differences between the versions^M
        Z     : start a shell to examine the situation^M
   The default action is to keep your current version.^M
  *** gprofng.rc (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? i^M
  Installing new version of config file /etc/gprofng.rc ...^M

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