When I upgraded my workhorse Pi 3 to Trixie, I apt installed weewx (5.3.01), using a working 5.0 .conf file from a Bookworm installation, and it has been working fine for a month or so. Today, when I did my periodic sudo apt update/sudo apt full-upgrade sequence, one of the upgrades pulled in was weewx (to 5.4.01 - not 100% sure about the last digit). As usual, when weewx is involved, in the course of the running of the apt upgrade, I was asked which version of weewx.conf to use - there are three or four options, includng the default 'keep existing version', which, again as usual, I accepted. However, when weewx was restarted by apt, I noticed that it was using a differently named .conf file (weewx.conf-5.0.0b16-5.4.0). weewx started up normally, and the 'new' .conf file turns out to be a copy of my original, with a change in the version parameter from 5.0.0b16 to 5.4.0 and a couple of minor changes in some commented text. In one sense, it can be argued that the upgrade *did* keep my old version of weewx.conf - just under a new name! However, the potential problem with this behavior, if I had not noticed the change, is that I might make a modification to the original weewx.conf in the future and get very confused by its not working! I think that this represents a change in behavior, but it may not be a recent one, since weewx wasn't apt installed on my bookworm system, and I think that this is the first time it has been upgraded by apt on my Trixie system. Why is "keep my existing weewx.conf" no longer being taken literally?
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