> Now if memcached has a security update, apt-get will restart the
> original packaged daemon, not my second instance. How can I make my
> second instance upgrade friendly?

According to the debian packaging rules if there is a configuration
change required for an update, and the configuration has been changed,
dpkg is required to ask what to do.  At that point there are plenty of
options to determine what you want to do eg: Install maintainers
config, keep your config etc.

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.3

"... must not overwrite or otherwise mangle the user's configuration
without asking ... "

In short, your locally changed config file should be safe.  If you're
using a for of debian that does not adhere to this policy, then all
bets are off (I'm not aware of any distro ignoring this policy).

Chris-
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