* 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, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/debian/openssh-server.preinst b/debian/openssh-server.preinst
index 412e51564..a5c507bd4 100644
--- a/debian/openssh-server.preinst
+++ b/debian/openssh-server.preinst
@@ -3,6 +3,19 @@
 action=$1
 version=$2
 
+prepare_transfer_conffile () {
+        CONFFILE="$1"
+        [ -e "$CONFFILE" ] || return 0
+
+        md5sum="$(md5sum "$CONFFILE" |sed -e 's/ .*//')"
+        old_md5sum="$(sed -n -e "/^Conffiles:/,/^[^ ]/{\\' $CONFFILE'{s/^ [^ ]* //;s/ .*//;p}}" /var/lib/dpkg/status)"
+        if [ "$md5sum" = "$old_md5sum" ]; then
+                echo >&2 "Transferring ownership of conffile $CONFFILE ..."
+                mv -f "$CONFFILE" "$CONFFILE.moved-by-preinst"
+                return 0
+        fi
+}
+
 if [ -d /etc/ssh-nonfree ] && [ ! -d /etc/ssh ]; then
   version=1.2.27
 fi
@@ -77,6 +90,12 @@ EOF
       fi
     }
   fi
+
+  if dpkg --compare-versions "$version" lt 0; then
+    prepare_transfer_conffile /etc/default/ssh
+    prepare_transfer_conffile /etc/init.d/ssh
+    prepare_transfer_conffile /etc/pam.d/ssh
+  fi
 fi
 
 #DEBHELPER#