> I have the packages base-files and linuxlogo installed. > I had run the linuxlogoconf program, which diverts /etc/issue > to /etc/issue.linuxlogo (using dpkg-divert) and replaces > /etc/issue with its own stuff.
/etc/issue is a conffile of base-files. If I understand policy correctly then linuxlogo should not touch it. > I then upgraded base-files, which changed the /etc/issue file. It changed /etc/issue even though it was diverted?! > This was unpacked into /etc/issue.linuxlogo.dpkg-new. > I presumed that it made sense not to ask about replacing > /etc/issue.linuxlogo with the new version. Until I imagined > what would happen when I rebooted the system: linuxlogo would > look at /etc/issue.linuxlogo, not at the new version. Bizarre. Why would linuxlogo look at /etc/issue.linuxlogo and not /etc/issue? > And to confirm my fears, I then purged linuxlogo to discover > that I was left with /etc/issue (after the dpkg-divert was > undone) and /etc/issue.linuxlogo.dpkg-new, which was the new > base-files version. Oops. That part sounds normal, doesn't it? > It would seem that the easiest way around this problem is > to ask about replacing diverted conffiles as well as normal > conffiles, maybe stating that the file has been diverted. Sounds reasonable. -- Thomas Hood
