Re: updating a deb

[Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net>]

Filippo Basso <debian@zirak.it> wrote:

> Configuration file `/etc/logs/php/eth2'
>  ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
>  ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
>    What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
>     Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
>     N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
>       D     : show the differences between the versions
>       Z     : background this process to examine the situation
>  The default action is to keep your current version.
> *** eth2 (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ?
> 
> so, the package system is thinking that eth2 is a configuration file... so
> if I cancel it, or modify, it isn't updated!
> the problem was that any file in /etc directory is considered as conffile,
> I suppose, because changing it in /var all worked right.

Right.  All packaged files under /etc should be conffiles according to
Debian policy.