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 it's prompting because the line is in a newer version of the conffile.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?
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