Adam Heath wrote: > I don't care what you have seen. Regardless, I went ahead and conducted more experiments using a couple of packages I cooked up to test dpkg.
I found that when the two packages had the same conffile, and the second was declared as either Conflicts:ing with the first or Replaces:ing the first or both, and regardless of whether the conffile was modified or unmodified after it was installed by the first package, the conffile was *never* deleted when the first package was purged at the end of the following sequence: 1. dpkg --install foo1 2. dpkg --remove foo1 3. dpkg --install foo2 4. dpkg --purge foo1 I also tried the case where the second package Replaces: the first but does not Conflicts: with it, and found that regardless of whether or not the conffile was modified after it was installed by the first package, the conffile was *not* deleted when the first package was purged at the end of the following sequence: 1. dpkg --install foo1 2. dpkg --install foo2 3. dpkg --purge foo1 Possibly there was once a bug, but it was inadvertently fixed? -- Thomas
