Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)
On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 06:07:28PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> From: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
> > On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 01:08:28PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> > > Former tetex packages provided language.dat as a
> > > conffile so if one changed (manually!) it then one would
> > > be asked whether to replace it or not everytime at upgrading.
> >
> > Does this file really change so often that this is a problem? Users
> > will only be prompted if the distributed version of a conffile has
> > changed.
>
> It is not problem how often language.dat changes but
> that if it was changed once then users will be prompted
> everytime at upgrading.
Users will only be prompted when both of these conditions hold:
* they have changed the file locally
* the file has changed in the package since the last version they had
installed
They will not be prompted if they have changed the file but the version
in the package remains unchanged.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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