Re: Transitional packages with conffiles

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

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/. The changes made to the old config no
> longer affect the new client.

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 ?!

Ian.