Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes:
Goswin von Brederlow writes (Transitional packages with conffiles):
Looking into the cause we discovered that the problem is that
dhcp3-client is now a transitional package that pulls in
isc-dhcp-client. The new package expects its config
Goswin von Brederlow writes (Transitional packages with conffiles):
Looking into the cause we discovered that the problem is that
dhcp3-client is now a transitional package that pulls in
isc-dhcp-client. The new package expects its config files in /etc/dhcp
while the old had /etc/dhcp3
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 02:01:37PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
Well surely the question is: why are the files moved to a different
directory ? Why is the package renamed, even ? Do we need to be able
to co-install the old and new ISC DHCP clients ?!
The original dhcp-client was version 2.
is that
dhcp3-client is now a transitional package that pulls in
isc-dhcp-client. The new package expects its config files in /etc/dhcp
while the old had /etc/dhcp3/. The changes made to the old config no
longer affect the new client.
Which brings me to the subject of this mail:
Transitional packages
On a somewhat related note:
If a package is manually installed, then replaced with a transitional
package, then apt should mark the transitional package's dependencies
as manually installed and the transitional package as automatically
installed. Otherwise, when one removes the transitional
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