Yes, previous upgrades "in the good old time (TM)" DID make a backup of changed configuration files, IF that file was modified by the user. This rule was usual at least in Debian (woody, sarge) and SuSE. Even some Ubuntu packages seems to follow this rule:
ca-certificates: $ ls -ld ca-certificates* drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-04-20 15:59 ca-certificates -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6473 2010-11-06 13:28 ca-certificates.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6282 2009-04-20 15:59 ca-certificates.conf.dpkg-old $ apt: $ ls -ld apt/sources.list* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3213 2011-03-10 17:55 apt/sources.list drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-11-06 12:49 apt/sources.list.d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3233 2011-03-10 17:55 apt/sources.list.distUpgrade -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3118 2009-10-14 16:24 apt/sources.list.save $ However, in contradicition to you, I do expect / strongly recommend making an update of configuration files, if the update process does modify them. This applies to xorg.conf, too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/740099 Title: Update to 10.04.2 LTS overwrites Xorg.conf without backup -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
