Bug#711925: apache2-doc's config file breaks apache itself

[Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Arno Töll <arno@debian.org> wrote:

On 25.07.2013 13:25, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> Wouldn't
>
> Package: apache2
> Replaces: apache2.2-common (<< 2.4.0)
> Breaks: apache2.2-common (<< 2.4.0)
>
> Solve the problem?

That's what we do already (minus breaks). That allows us to overwrite
and take-over conffiles from apache2.2-common. This works nicely and
does what it is supposed to do - except in cases where people use
--purge-unused because they think that's fun.

In that case apt[itude] decides to purge all of /etc/apache2 entirely
_before_ we have a deterministic chance to do look at the state, because
apache2.2-common is going to be removed by upgrading to 2.4.

I am not sure if an empty 2.2-common package in addition to that would
solve that problem, as it would ship none of the conffiles either, so
consequently they would still be purged.

It's worth trying, isn't it? I think it would help, because it would get purged later in the upgrade process (when apache2 is installed and replaces the apache2.2-common).

O.

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Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>