Your message dated Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:16:51 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#561888: wireless-tools: Unnecessary dpkg conffile
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Package: wireless-tools
Version: 30~pre9-3
Severity: normal
As the script below shows, I was prompted by dpkg for if I wished
to replace /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools and
/etc/network/if-post-down.d/wireless-tools with a new version.
However... the "old" files had never been edited, and were
(according to the diff) completely empty. It looks like they
might have been touched in the maintainer script at some point?
Whatever the cause of the empty files being present, a dpkg
conffile prompt should not be seen unless the admin actually
modified the file, which was not the case here.
Regards,
Roger
Setting up wireless-tools (30~pre9-3) ...
Configuration file `/etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools'
==> Deleted (by you or by a script) since installation.
==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
N or O : keep your currently-installed version
D : show the differences between the versions
Z : background this process to examine the situation
The default action is to keep your current version.
*** wireless-tools (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? y
Installing new version of config file /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools
...
Configuration file `/etc/network/if-post-down.d/wireless-tools'
==> Deleted (by you or by a script) since installation.
==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
N or O : keep your currently-installed version
D : show the differences between the versions
Z : background this process to examine the situation
The default action is to keep your current version.
*** wireless-tools (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? y
Installing new version of config file
/etc/network/if-post-down.d/wireless-tools ...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (550, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages wireless-tools depends on:
ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libiw30 30~pre9-3 Wireless tools - library
wireless-tools recommends no packages.
wireless-tools suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Version: 30~pre9-3
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:27:29PM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 09:13:06PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
>
> > It looks like it was from 30~pre9-2 to 30~pre9-3, from dpkg.log:
> >
> > 2009-12-21 01:13:55 upgrade wireless-tools 30~pre9-2 30~pre9-3
> >
> > As for not doing anything about it, if it's not going to affect
> > lenny->squeeze upgrades, then that's perfectly OK. It should,
> > however, be perfectly possible to correct the move using a
> > version check in the preinst/postinst on upgrades, completely
> > safely.
>
> I was trying to get lenny->squeeze upgrades to work without conflicts, but
> made
> a mistake in the 30~pre9-2 preinst script. I'll double check to see if
> lenny->squeeze works. I don't think it makes any sense to correct for
> 30~pre9-1
> or -2, if people track unstable it most likely is too late anyway, and they
> have already gotten the conflict message.
OK, thanks for the explanation. I'll close the bug, so it should be done
so long as the lenny upgrade path is smooth.
Thanks,
Roger
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