On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 02:53:23PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 03:39:29PM -0400, you wrote:
> >Oh, good; I was hoping you could comment on the future prospects of
> >Debian bug #269973, which I believe is a policy violation.
> 
> Pretty much nothing. It's not prompting you because you added that line,
> it's prompting because the line is in a newer version of the conffile. I
> have no idea why dpkg thinks the conffile was changed, and there's not
> much chance that a newer xlock package could go back and fix it at this
> point. (The conffile handling is a dpkg thing, not part of the package
> installation scripts.)
Right; I don't know how such a problem would occur, but it should not.
Is it possible that that file wasn't included in some version of the
package?

Justin


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