Bug#36972: dpkg: dpkg can remoev vital files/symlinks without warn
morpheus@rpglink.com (Steve Lamb) wrote on 03.05.99 in <[🔎] E10eOVW-0000k6-00@rpglink.com>:
> It was the standard "new
> configuration" prompt which in nearly EVERY case can be safely ignored.
That is a pretty startling assertion.
I'd say that this prompt can *never* be safely ignored.
Maybe the package won't break if you do. But chances are it will change
it's behaviour in unpredictable ways. I've seen countless examples of
this.
That's why there *is* such a prompt, after all. If it were safe to ignore,
there would be no good reason to have it in the first place.
In fact, if this were a report about one of my packages, I'd probably say
the above assertion alone is a reasn to close the bug as a clear pilot
error.
> My concern lays in what the administrator has built up around those
> packages. Listar, in this case, broke with no warning. *NONE*.
Given your above assertion, this is obviously untrue, *and you know it*.
MfG Kai
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