On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 at 09:36 -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Hans Fugal wrote:
>
> >On upgrade, overwrites configuration files in /etc/dovecot, specifically
> >(in my case) /etc/dovecot/dovecot{,-ldap}.conf.
> >
>
> Hmm, I find this a little difficult to believe. The Debian package system
> doesn't overwrite conffiles unless you specifically ask it to. Which
> version were you upgrading from? Did the entire configuration get
> overwritten or only certain settings?The entire config was rewritten with the default, and my config was moved to dovecot.conf.dpkg-old. I know debian conffiles are supposed to keep changes, and that's why I filed a bug report. It did this to me last time I upgraded as well, but at that juncture the config file format had changed so drastically I figured it was on purpose. -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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