clone 330078 -1 reassign -1 dpkg retitle -1 dpkg: should offer to delete conffiles which do not exist in upgraded package thanks
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 10:34:56PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > Thanks for the explanation but I had in mind only unchanged conffiles > (unchanged by the local administrator). At present when I have > changed some conffile, dpkg asks me whether to replace it with a new > version. And when the conffile is unchanged dpkg replaces it without > asking. The problem is that dpkg does this only when the contents of > the file changes and not when the file does not exist in the new > package version any more. In my opinion the proper behaviour of dpkg > is as follows: > > IF conffile does not exist any more THEN > IF the conffile is changed by local admin THEN > ask what to do: remove, preserve or move/rename > ELSE > remove the file > END > END Cloning this as a bug against dpkg: this is clearly beyond the domain of the tetex packages themselves. Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
