Re: installing a package from "Config-files" state earlier than the most recent stable release
On 14 Jun 2006, Steve Langasek outgrape:
> Just like there's no guarantee that saying "no" to a conffile prompt
> when upgrading across stable releases will give you a usable
> package.
I prefer in that case not to install the new version of the
package; since questions can be missed in a dist-upgrade. Some of my
packages default to not upgrading unless some questions are answered
affirmatively -- so the end result is still a working package (as
long as the dependencies still exist).
manoj
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