Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The thing is that it's not just a transition, it's an install, an > upgrade and a purge. When someone purges a package there shouldn't be > any owned files left... But you're kind of right that this is a dpkg bug > as it doesn't support taking over conffiles properly. So my advice is to > either leave it as is and 'wait' for a solution in dpkg or remove the > files when purged. The latter is only tricky when *after* the transition > the file can still be owned by more than one package from a maintainer's > point of view.
At least for the obsolete files, which are kept only for the maintainer's convenience, no one should claim ownership. Therefore I'll let tetex-base remove them upon purge. Thanks for the advice, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
