Package: apt Version: 0.5.21 Severity: wishlist Currently a "apt-get install <package> --reinstall" invocation will not touch the configuration files, and does not ask when a configuration file was changed or is missing.
So if by accident one deletes or wracks havoc one of his configuration files, it is not possible to recover from this problem by reinstall. Only current solution is to manually extract the configuration file in question from the package archive - or downgrading and upgrading again. Both options are not very comfortable for the user. Please consider asking the user about changed/missing configuration files, like an package upgrade would also do. -- Package-specific info: -- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux zeus 2.4.19 #2 Fri Dec 6 03:45:09 CET 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Versions of packages apt depends on: hi libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.3.3-0pre2 GCC support library ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-0pre2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information
