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Re: Upgrade glitches



On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 04:01:38PM +0100, Malcolm Parsons wrote:
> 
> Yes, the bug in lynx is that the file is no longer marked as a conffile,
> but is still shipped in /etc.

yeah the same thing happened with quik recently...

> It would be nice if dpkg would refuse to install packages this badly broken,
> but this bug is completely lynx's fault.

or at the very least lintian should check for this, i ran lintian on
the offending quik package and it reported no such problem.  

i think its safe to say that an /etc file in the package not listed as
a conffile is a error (it violates policy).  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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