Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (to debian-devel): > Unfortunately dpkg does not handle the case where a conffile > ceases to exist in a later version of a package. The conffile > will be left on the system even after purging.
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? I am cc:ing this to #108587 (and to people who commented on it) which already asks for dpkg to handle disappearing conffiles properly. -- Thomas
