[Bug 191810] [NEW] obsolete conffiles are not removed on upgrade

[Michael Biebl]

Public bug reported:

After upgrading from firefox 2 to 3beta3 (where the conffiles now are in
/etc/firefox-3.0), I still have a lot of cruft in /etc/firefox and /etc
/mozilla-firefox:

Package: firefox
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: web
Installed-Size: 128
Maintainer: Alexander Sack <asac at ubuntu.com>
Architecture: all
Source: firefox-3.0
Version: 3.0~b3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
Depends: firefox-3.0
Conffiles:
 /etc/gre.d/firefox.conf b4373d803382b2e14e405874ff50f664 obsolete
 /etc/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefoxrc fa562ca63014f5e9dd470a37766376d6 obsolete
 /etc/mozilla-firefox/pref/firefox.js 9b21e21aa3f8a0ab8f134ba04b8846ff obsolete
 /etc/mozilla-firefox/profile/bookmarks.html 44e419e6fc9b2a2a954b73708d5223cc obsolete
 /etc/mozilla-firefox/profile/localstore.rdf ea03cc19c2a3f622fa557cd8ea9da6eb obsolete
 /etc/mozilla-firefox/profile/search.rdf 26d13f5d96ad118b5de5d234f9d052fa obsolete
 /etc/mozilla-firefox/profile/mimeTypes.rdf 69cdcb7e0209f2e9d29000ee1c0ee2f0 obsolete
 /etc/mozilla-firefox/profile/chrome/userChrome-example.css 4788fdaa51b0a238cb21f5c2877ef06d obsolete
 /etc/mozilla-firefox/profile/chrome/userContent-example.css d3765c7d2de5626529195007f4b7144a obsolete
 /etc/mozilla-firefox/profile/extensions/Extensions.rdf 4e5887ce2461b9874016a170750c05e1 obsolete
 /etc/mozilla-firefox/profile/prefs.js 99940ecd258d83b3355ab06fca0ffddb obsolete
 /etc/firefox/pref/firefox.js fdab5286f88abaccc3a6fa04ab12ef13 obsolete
 /etc/firefox/firefoxrc e4a7a18bcd5d3a8946ceb797967c4245 obsolete
 /etc/firefox/profile/prefs.js 99940ecd258d83b3355ab06fca0ffddb obsolete
 /etc/firefox/profile/chrome/userContent-example.css d3765c7d2de5626529195007f4b7144a obsolete
 /etc/firefox/profile/chrome/userChrome-example.css 4788fdaa51b0a238cb21f5c2877ef06d obsolete
 /etc/firefox/profile/mimeTypes.rdf 69cdcb7e0209f2e9d29000ee1c0ee2f0 obsolete
 /etc/firefox/profile/search.rdf 939dcfba9fa92f86bcacb487df9dede1 obsolete
 /etc/firefox/profile/localstore.rdf ea03cc19c2a3f622fa557cd8ea9da6eb obsolete
 /etc/firefox/profile/bookmarks.html ed5cb20b2c5f3e90c524a6c62b6f467e obsolete

The obsolete conffiles should be removed/transitioned to the new location.
See
http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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obsolete conffiles are not removed on upgrade
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191810
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