Actually, isn't this policy violation?
10.7.3:
Configuration file handling must conform to the following behavior:
local changes must be preserved during a package upgrade
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 03:02:46PM +0200, Antti Salmela wrote:
> I don't think that this is just a documentation issue,
Package: php5-common
Version: 5.6.14+dfsg-0+deb8u1
Severity: serious
Dear Maintainer,
I was under impression that maintainer scripts shouldn't recreate
configuration files removed by system administrator. php5-common just
recreated symbolic link from /etc/php5/sapi/conf.d/05-opcache.ini to
Control: severity -1 minor
Control: reassign 797350 php5-common
Control: forcemerge 797350 -1
Dear Antti,
yes, the documentation on module management could be improved, and it
has been already filled as 803244.
Cheers,
Ondrej
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015, at 12:30, Antti Salmela wrote:
> Package:
I don't think that this is just a documentation issue, behaviour is just too
unexpected.
dpkg doesn't recreate removed config files, apache2 has similar helpers, but it
doesn't recreate
links removed by hand on update.
-- Antti
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 01:21:06PM +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>
The configuration changes done by the helper utilities are conserved, so
I don't think this violates the policies.
Anyway I would be very happy to apply any patch that would detect a ini
file deleted by an user. But it has to be well tested on single
installs, upgrades and cross-release upgrades
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