* When installing openssh-client or openssh-server from scratch, remove

  any unchanged conffiles from the pre-split ssh package to work around a
  bug in sarge's dpkg (thanks, Justin Pryzby and others; closes: #335276).

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/debian/openssh-server.postinst b/debian/openssh-server.postinst
index 2d7dbc9ea..4e91098df 100644
--- a/debian/openssh-server.postinst
+++ b/debian/openssh-server.postinst
@@ -332,6 +332,13 @@ setup_init() {
         fi
 }
 
+commit_transfer_conffile () {
+        CONFFILE="$1"
+        if [ -e "$CONFFILE.moved-by-preinst" ]; then
+                rm -f "$CONFFILE.moved-by-preinst"
+        fi
+}
+
 
 fix_doc_symlink
 create_sshdconfig
@@ -346,6 +353,9 @@ if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt 1:3.6.1p2-2; then
     fix_conffile_permissions
 fi
 setup_init
+commit_transfer_conffile /etc/default/ssh
+commit_transfer_conffile /etc/init.d/ssh
+commit_transfer_conffile /etc/pam.d/ssh
 
 
 db_stop