retitle 508392 Handling of conflicting conffiles broken found 508392 1.14.23 found 508293 1.13.25 thanks
Hi, On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 08:33:11PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the future so other people > might be able to help, thanks. OK. Mea culpa, didn't notice that the address changed in newer versions. > I've created some test packages and I can verify this behaviour, at > least on sid, lenny and etch. I've just now debootstrapped a sarge chroot > to test on, and it works properly there (i.e. it fails to install the > other package). I didn't test it with Sarge, but I confirmed it with Etch, Lenny and Sid, too. Accordingly marking the bug report. > > What I expected is that on installation of Package B a warning would > > have been issued that Package B tries to replace a (configuration) file > > which also belongs to another Package A (and that the installation would > > fail). Just like it is for normal files in the package. From my point of > > view this _is_ the right behaviour. > > I'd expect it to fail to install, as any other file conflict. Could > you please file a bug report? Ok, good. And: Done. > I've done some minor investigation and I'm suspecting the culprit > could be the partial fix for 108587, commit id 854ad168370000ca46. Citing this FTR. Best Regards, Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
