On 10 Mar 1999, Rob Browning wrote: > Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Since this file is commonly changed by the user to point to a near Debian > > mirror, dpkg asks very often about replacing this file by the version > > provided inside the .deb, which is not usually what the user wants. > > Normally the user ends up answering No all the time. > > dpkg isn't supposed to ask if the file hasn't changed upstream. If it > has, presumably there's a reason, and the user might want to know > about it (new features, new defaults, whatever). This is one reason > we have conffiles.
Yes, but in this case there is not an /etc/apt/sources.list file which satisfies everybody *in practice* (putting a well known debian mirror satisfies everybody in theory, but I think we should take in account that the US is far from Europe, from Japan, etc in terms of bandwidth). Most people will change it to point to a local mirror. I think it is much better to prompt the user only when the format of the file changes, instead of doing it always. Thanks. -- "e58820910d4ed7bb76c898f315daa8e3" (a truly random sig)
