Your message dated Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:44:24 +0200
with message-id <20100615084424.ga6...@rivendell>
and subject line Re: Bug#585914: dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile: please
provide option to preserve filename
has caused the Debian Bug report #585914,
regarding dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile: please provide option to
preserve filename
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.15.7.2
Severity: minor
According to dpkg-maintscript-helper(1), the current implementation of
rm_conffile preserves locally modified conffiles by renaming them to
<conffile>.dpkg-bak.
This does not work in certain cases where the (modified) conffile should
continue to be used. For example, since cron-3.0pl1-112 we no longer ship
/etc/cron.monthly/standard; it's been empty for almost a decade. Using
rm_conffile to remove it and preserve possible local changes will not work in
this case because standard.dpkg-bak is not a valid name for files in
/etc/cron.* directories. Jobs added to this file would therefore no longer be
run.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii coreutils 8.5-1 GNU core utilities
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.11.1-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libselinux1 2.0.94-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii xz-utils 4.999.9beta+20100527-1 XZ-format compression utilities
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
dpkg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii apt 0.7.25.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Christian Kastner wrote:
> Ah, yes. I don't know why I didn't think of this; I guess I was
> complicating this too much.
>
> > I will probably close this bug in some time if the discussion doesn't
> > bring forward any new argument.
>
> Please close it.
Done.
Cheers,
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