Hi, I'm encountering a problem when upgrading my giram-* packages. Currently, giram-* 0.1.9 packages are in unstable and I prepared a 0.1.10 aiming at replacing them all.
I'll give an example of the problem with giram-mesa. Conffiles appear twice in giram-mesa because I did not notice at first glance that debhelper v3 automatically adds all /etc files to the conffiles. Once installed, giram-mesa gives: amboise:~$ dpkg -s giram-mesa Package: giram-mesa Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: graphics Installed-Size: 2156 Maintainer: Jerome Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: giram Version: 0.1.9-2 Replaces: giram, giram-gnome, giram-gnome-mesa Provides: giram Depends: lib3ds-1.0-0, libc6 (>= 2.2.3-1), libgl1, libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.10-1), xlibs (>> 4.0.3) Suggests: povray Conflicts: giram, giram-gnome, giram-gnome-mesa Conffiles: /etc/giram/0.1/giramrc 5000e5edd0db24a5b729d659d5bb0ba1 /etc/giram/0.1/giramrc_user f5767de5d4cbf674bd28da48dcf9bdd2 /etc/giram/0.1/gtkrc eaca718263de3bd6d0f28de79aba9295 /etc/giram/0.1/gtkrc_user 45e7ea822c126fa29e163295f7239e17 /etc/giram/0.1/ps-menurc 0cc742b7941bc398f41de07af0d2095d /etc/giram/0.1/giramrc newconffile /etc/giram/0.1/giramrc_user newconffile /etc/giram/0.1/gtkrc newconffile /etc/giram/0.1/gtkrc_user newconffile /etc/giram/0.1/ps-menurc newconffile Description: 3D modeller for POV-Ray .... And here is the conffile list: amboise:~$ cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/giram-mesa.conffiles /etc/giram/0.1/giramrc /etc/giram/0.1/giramrc_user /etc/giram/0.1/gtkrc /etc/giram/0.1/gtkrc_user /etc/giram/0.1/ps-menurc /etc/giram/0.1/giramrc /etc/giram/0.1/giramrc_user /etc/giram/0.1/gtkrc /etc/giram/0.1/gtkrc_user /etc/giram/0.1/ps-menurc Then, I installed giram 0.1.10 which replaced giram-mesa as expected: amboise:~$ sudo dpkg -i giram_0.1.10-1_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package giram. dpkg: considering removing giram-mesa in favour of giram ... dpkg: yes, will remove giram-mesa in favour of giram. (Reading database ... 98669 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking giram (from giram_0.1.10-1_i386.deb) ... Setting up giram (0.1.10-1) ... Conffiles look good and have been installed where I expected the to. amboise:~$ cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/giram.conffiles /etc/giram/0.1/giramrc /etc/giram/0.1/giramrc_user /etc/giram/0.1/gtkrc /etc/giram/0.1/gtkrc_user /etc/giram/0.1/ps-menurc amboise:~$ ls -al /etc/giram/0.1/ total 10 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Aug 23 15:22 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Aug 23 15:21 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1667 Jun 28 14:42 giramrc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 633 Jun 28 14:42 giramrc_user -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 397 Jun 28 14:42 gtkrc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 200 Jun 28 14:42 gtkrc_user -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2437 Jun 28 14:42 ps-menurc Then, I purged giram-mesa: amboise:~$ dpkg --purge giram-mesa dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege amboise:~/debian/packages/giram$ sudo dpkg --purge giram-mesa (Reading database ... 98669 files and directories currently installed.) Removing giram-mesa ... Purging configuration files for giram-mesa ... This made strangely conffiles from giram disappear: amboise:~$ ls /etc/giram/0.1/ amboise:~$ Then, I decided to reinstall the new giram in order to recover my conffiles amboise:~/debian/packages/giram$ sudo dpkg -i giram_0.1.10-1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 98669 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace giram 0.1.10-1 (using giram_0.1.10-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement giram ... Setting up giram (0.1.10-1) ... amboise:~$ ls -al /etc/giram/0.1/ amboise:~$ But it strangely did not recover them. I really have no idea on what is happening. giram 0.1.10 is not yet in unstable. I put it at: http://jerome.marant.free.fr/debian/giram Thanks in advance. -- J�r�me Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
