Re: reinstalling conffiles

[Piotr Roszatycki <Piotr_Roszatycki@netia.net.pl>]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Ben Collins wrote:
> > But it didn't prompt when I changed conffile and then ran `apt-get
> > --reinstall install package'. What is wrong?
>
> Pay attention to what I said. It only prompts when the original conffile
> of the package you have installed differs from the original that you are
> about to install.

So dpkg can't restore or even check which conffiles was modified.
It might be helpful feature.

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