Bug#335276: ssh conffile prompts

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 10:50:50PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> severity 335259 important
> severity 339978 important
> merge 335259 3339978 35276
> thanks
> 
> ssh doesn't handle conffiles the right way at all.  I'm including a
> tarball of stuff that failed to work properly while upgrading from
> 1:3.8.1p1-8.sarge.4 to 1:4.2p1-5, excluding the "moduli" files,
> because I don't know if their contents are sensitive..
> 
> I think you can do what is necessary with custom MD5 handling as
> described at:
> 
>   http://www.dpkg.org/ConffileHandling

The problem is that the conffiles have moved to different packages (ssh
to openssh-{config,server}). The wiki page above doesn't explicitly
cover this case, although I may be able to work something out from it.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]