Package: piuparts Severity: wishlist As per subject, I believe we have quite a few postinsts that think that «no file» means «please reinstall original configuration file» and this test should hopefully catch that.
The test should do the following: - install package X - remove any (or all?) configuration files belonging to package X, as determined by a diff of when all its dependencies have been installed and when the package itself is installed. Probably blacklist special files like alternatives and rc.d links from this list. - install package X again - make sure the configuration files do not reappear. However, this probably uncovers the need for something like dpkg's --force-confmiss (for non-conffile configuration files) that can be passed to dpkg or dpkg-reconfigure and that postinsts can respect. That's something that should be put in policy though. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
