Bug#345112: firefox: unnecessary prompts about conffiles after migrating from package 'mozilla-firefox'

[Justin Pryzby]

Package: firefox
Version: 1.5.dfsg-3
Severity: important
File: ./debian/preinst, 
 bookmarks.html,
 firefox.js,
 search.rdf

I just updated to the 'firefox' package available in sid, replacing
'mozilla-firefox' packages in testing to test a bug, as requested by
Eric.  I got prompts about conffiles which I should not have gotten,
since I did not modify those files.  This is probably caused by the
new package shipping conffiles which were previously owned by the old
package, and failing to provide any preinst foo to handle it.

Please see the examples at http://www.dpkg.org/ConffileHandling.  The
goal is to save all our users from having to deal with this prompt,
which will, until fixed, affect sarge to etch upgrades.  Remember to
preserve deletion of a conffile.

I can't reproduce this behaviour of causing a .diff after a conffile
is changed in a new package name which conflicts+replaces the old
package, btw.

Included are the files which I saw changed on 2 upgrades.

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