Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

[David Schleef <ds@schleef.org>]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 12:20:04AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
> Subject: Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)
> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 04:21:17 -0500
> 
> >  >> I have an impression that such Policy understanding prevents sane
> >  >> advance of packages.
> > 
> > 	I am sorry, I do think that not preserving user changes is not
> >  an advancement.
> 
> I said to you once before but the new mechanism preserves 
> user change much clearly than the former one within the
> new mechanism.  It could lost user change only at transition
> from the old mechanism (conffile) to the new mechanism (configuration
> file).

Such as in an upgrade from woody to sarge?  That sounds like a
RC bug to me.



dave...