Previously Thomas Hood wrote: > Agreed, dpkg should do something reasonable when a package > is replaced and the new version doesn't list all the > conffiles that the old one did. I'd say that it should > rename such conffiles to $NAME.dpkg-old . Would that be enough, > or should the user be asked about it?
That would be horrible since that extension is already used for a different purpose and might silently remove useful data. The real question is: what is reasonable behaviour? Keeping the file as it is sounds reasonable to me: other (possibly modified) files might refer to it and might suddenly break if a file is removed. An example of this is upstream renaming or obsoleting conffiles that other tools also happen to use (this is happening right now in freeradius). Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple.
