tags 564254 - unreproducible reassign 564254 bash-completion 1:1.1-3 found 564254 bash-completion/1:1.2-2 quit [resetting cc list]
Guillem Jover wrote: > My guess would be that bash got upgraded to the package w/o the > obsolete conffile before the fixed dpkg on those systems. > > A proof of that I guess, might be checking if the file has the obsolete > flag, if it does not then it was installed by a buggy dpkg. > > $ dpkg-query -W -f '${Conffiles}\n' bash | grep bash_completion > > And an unversioned Replaces in bash-completion would be the correct way > to handle that. Fixing that in bash would imply removing the file on > upgrade, removing it on remove or purge would not really happen (bash > is Essential). And as such it would need to check if bash-completion is > installed, to not remove a file it does not own, or check if it has the > conffile listed in the Conffile field w/o the obsolete flag? etc, which > seems overcomplex and just wrong, compared with just a Replaces field. Thanks, Guillem. Reassigning to bash-completion. David et al, this bug is a request for unversioned Replaces: by bash-completion on bash. But feel free to do what you want with it; it's yours now. :) Regards, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101115231107.ga22...@burratino