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Re: diverting conffiles



Le samedi 25 juin 2005 à 22:16 +0200, Marc Haber a écrit :
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:40:54 +0200, Julien Cristau
> <julien.cristau@ens-lyon.fr> wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 11:35:17 +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> >> Hi, what exactly is the problem with diverting conffiles?
> >> 
> >See http://bugs.debian.org/58735.
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but that seems to be a minor cosmetic issue
> of old files left around which can be almost trivially solved with a
> cron job, right?
> 
> Or is that potential breakage material?

Dpkg doesn't check for diverted conffiles when upgrading them. Things
happily break when it tries to update the file to a newer version.
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