severity 109691 normal tags 109691 moreinfo thanks > I've been trying to get a sendmail-tls package setup so that one could > seemlessly change from sendmail to sendmail-tls (and back again).
> The conffiles names and contents are *identicle* in the two packages, > and they each 'Replaces:' the other. If the packages Replace: each other then they are *not* designed to be used simultaneously. But there may still be a bug here ... The sendmail package has changed enormously since this report was filed, so it's hard to reproduce the original bug. I don't find sendmail-tls in the archive at all. Interestingly, the woody version of sendmail has *no* conffiles. > After installing sendmail, then sendmail-tls, sendmail doesn't > disapear, and a dpkg --purge on it will incorrectly (according > to policy) remove the conffiles! I wonder whether sendmail-tls failed to declare sendmail's conffiles as conffiles. That would explain why, after installing sendmail-tls, there were still sendmail conffiles on the system, and why, when purging sendmail, these conffiles were removed. But then, I suppose the conffiles would still have been listed in /var/lib/dpkg/info/sendmail.list, right? It seems the bug is that dpkg can delete conffiles that have been "taken over" by a replacing package. Is this still your view? -- Thomas
