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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