Re: Could anyone explain me?

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Richard Kettlewell writes ("Re: Could anyone explain me?"):
> Michael Meskes writes:
...
> >It appears to work again now that I manually installed the config
> >files.  It seems for some reason both files were deleted but the
> >install script acted as if it was there. Maybe it has something to do
> >with an incorrect entry in /var/lib/dpkg/status.
> 
> I don't know.  Ian, does that sound as if it makes sense?

If you delete some config files (listed in conffiles) then dpkg will
*not* just reinstall them when you reinstall/upgrade the package.

This is necessary because for some programs the absence of a config
file is a distinct situation, which the sysadmin may have created
deliberately.

Ian.