Re: postinst scripts failing because a new conffile wasn't accepted: Is it a bug?
Scripsit Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
> Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> wrote:
>> Do you mean that every package that offers to edit conffiles based on
>> debconf questions is policy-buggy?
> Of course, see 10.7.3:
> | These two styles of configuration file handling must not be mixed, for
> | that way lies madness: dpkg will ask about overwriting the file every
> | time the package is upgraded.
> `----
This rationale does not apply to the case we are discussing.
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