For whatever reason deborphan seems to consider file-rc
being available for removal since a few days:
| ===== shell: DEBORPHAN/98-clean-chroot =====
| [...]
| (Reading database ... 24676 files and directories currently installed.)
| Removing file-rc ...
| Purging configuration files for file-rc ...
| Please purge /var/backups/rc.* manually.
| DEBORPHAN/98-clean-chroot OK.
exit 0
fi
+# avoid file-rc being considered for removal by deborphan
+if [ -d $target/usr/share/file-rc -a -x $target/usr/bin/deborphan ] ; then
+ echo "Adding file-rc to keep-list of deborphan to avoid accidental removal"
+ $ROOTCMD deborphan --add-keep file-rc || /bin/true
+fi
+
# remove all packages not necessary anymore:
$ROOTCMD apt-get -y --purge autoremove