On Sat 11 Jan 2014 at 11:04:08 +0100, Malte Forkel wrote: > I have a question regarding the handling of locally modified conffiles > on package upgrades. > > When I installed a new version of a self-written native package, I > noticed that I was not asked whether I wanted to keep or replace a > configuration file that I had modified locally. After the upgrade, my > modified version was still in place and there was no *.dpkg-dist. > > The file resides in a subdirectory of /etc, and seems to be recognized > as a conffile: It gets removed by apt-get purge but not by apt-get > remove. Using dpkg-deb -c, I verified that the file is part of the new > package. > > I'm running a fairly generic installation of Debian wheezy. > > What might I be missing?
Ckeck that the file in question is a conffile: dpkg --status <package_name> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
