Package: dpkg Version: 1.10.18 Severity: wishlist 01:32PM|<Overfiend> people *really* do not understand that dpkg thinks deletion of conffiles is a deliberate change 01:32PM|<Overfiend> maybe dpkg should chat about it the way it does in other cases. 01:32PM|<Keybuk> aye, it should be obvious that 'rm /etc/init.d/evilness' is a change that dpkg should honour 01:32PM|<Overfiend> "Not installing new version of conffile /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/us, because it has been deleted locally." 01:32PM|<doogie> dpkg even has special options for forcing conffile replacment 01:32PM|<Overfiend> or something like that 01:33PM|<Overfiend> doogie: *I* know that. Many of our users don't, and don't even know why those options need to exist. 01:33PM|<Keybuk> that could be nice, with maybe a "Use --force-confmiss to override, at your caution." 01:34PM|<doogie> file a wishlist bug about that.
-- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: powerpc Kernel: Linux redwald 2.4.22-powerpc #1 Sat Oct 25 16:59:03 EST 2003 ppc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii dselect 1.10.18 a user tool to manage Debian packa ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information
