Hi I'm preparing packages for the new upstream version (2.0.2) of the Discover hardware detection system (referenced as discover2). The last version of discover in Debian is 1.5 (referenced as discover1). The name of the package is discover.
The current discover package contains a conffile /etc/discover.conf. The new version of discover will contain a conffile with the same name in the package libdiscover2. The format used for the configuration file is incompatible between these two version. If no configuration file with the new format is installed, discover will stop working. My question is how to best handle this situation for upgrades. I already figured out, that libdiscover2 should "Conflicts: discover (<< 2.0)". But on upgrade dpkg asks if it should install the new version of the conffile (because discover was not purged and /etc/discover.conf still exists). Because the package which contains the conffile changed, this question is even asked if the user did not change /etc/discover.conf. How can I avoid this question (at least if the file is unchanged)? Thanks for your help Gaudenz
