also sprach Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> [2004.10.14.1316 +0200]: > Have you tested this? I think that the file will not be deleted, > because upon upgrade, the old package is only removed, not purged. > Therefore all conffiles stay in /etc. I was about to reply with "of course", but then I tested it again, and so I say: "of course you are right." Damn, I don't know what happened earlier, I could have sworn it did not work. So the 'leftover' file /etc/foo.conf is never deleted because version 1 is not purged and version 2 does not contain the file in the lists file anymore, so dpkg does not know this file ever existed... Sorry for the noise, and thanks for your answer. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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