Re: conffiles may be removed, this is not a dpkg bug [was Re: Processed: reassigning]

To: Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr>
Cc: galeon-common@packages.debian.org, dpkg@packages.debian.org
Subject: Re: conffiles may be removed, this is not a dpkg bug [was Re: Processed: reassigning]
From: Erich Schubert <erich@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 15:35:05 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 20020707133505.GB11851@bombadil.xmldesign.de>
In-reply-to: <20020707114143.GC23302@cibalia.gkvk.hr>
References: <20020707094129.GC1911@bombadil.xmldesign.de> <[🔎] handler.s.C.1026034892775.transcript@bugs.debian.org> <20020707114143.GC23302@cibalia.gkvk.hr>

> Someone or something removed a file marked as conffile. Removed is a valid

This "someone" was dpkg.

> fix the postinst script not to die when the conffile is not there, or figure
> out some other way to handle that situation.

Like assigning the bug to dpkg, so dpkg doesn't (repeatedly, although i
do not know how to reproduce it yet) remove the file?

Greetings,
Erich

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