Re: dpkg: File missing at postinst (Re: Bug#98419: Postgresql on sid (fwd))
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:55:47AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > Does dpkg not consider removal of a conffile to be a change?
>
> If the user does that, yes. Which is why that change is preserved on
> an upgade (ie dpkg won't let the conffile reappear automatically).
>
> > It sounds like a dpkg bug, then. Is it?
>
> No, it's documented behaviour. dpkg considers removing a conffile
> a normal change to a conffile, just like editing it.
Does it offer to reinstate the conffile in such a case?
Julian
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