On Jun 12, Kai Henningsen wrote
> phil@fifi.org (Philippe Troin) wrote on 12.06.97 in <[🔎] 199706121732.KAA31530@tantale.fifi.org>:
>
> > I'm stuck with the diald package, and I've got problems with users
> > from old versions. The thing is:
> > the files /etc/diald/diald.ip-{up,down} weren't conffiles, and now
> > they are.
> > Installing a new version of diald where the ip-up/down scripts are
> > conffiles on top of an old version where they weren't results in
> > overwriting of the files.
>
> I'd like to call that a dpkg bug. When a file is a conffile in either the
> new or the old package, dpkg ought to use conffile behaviour. Anything
> else is just too dangerous.
>
I don't know about the "conffile only in older package" situation,
but it seems like a good idea for the "conffile only in newer package"
situation.
Christian
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