Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anyway, I think this is a bug in dpkg (not asking about removed > > conffiles) and I don't think it is right to make a program to > > "benefit" from bugs in other programs... > > I've always hated this behavoir, but it's my understanding it's > intentional (a feature, not a bug ;-).
"However, note that dpkg will not replace a conffile that was removed by the user (or by a script). This is necessary because with some programs a missing file produces an effect hard or impossible to achieve in another way, so that a missing file needs to be kept that way if the user did it." (Packaging Manual 9.1) -- James
