Bug#140222: dpkg: wrong handling of missing conffiles on upgrade ?

[Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.9.20
Severity: important


Here is what happened - there seem to be no such conffile before upgrade,
this is badly handled by dpkg.


Setting up giram (0.1.12-1) ...

Configuration file /etc/giram/0.1/giramrc'
 ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
 ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
   What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
    Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
    N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
      D     : show the differences between the versions
      Z     : background this process to examine the situation
 The default action is to keep your current version.
*** giramrc (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? d
diff: /etc/giram/0.1/giramrc: No such file or directory
			  
Configuration file /etc/giram/0.1/giramrc'
 ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
 ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
   What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
    Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
    N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
      D     : show the differences between the versions
      Z     : background this process to examine the situation
 The default action is to keep your current version.
*** giramrc (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? i
dpkg: giram: warning - failed to link /etc/giram/0.1/giramrc' to /etc/giram/0.1/giramrc.dpkg-old': No such file or directory
Installing new version of config file /etc/giram/0.1/giramrc ...


-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux bylbo 2.4.17-smp+evms+kdb #1 SMP mer mar 27 00:23:14 CET 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=français, LC_CTYPE=français

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libc6                    2.2.5-4         GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5              5.2.20020112a-6 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2   1:2.95.4-5      The GNU stdc++ library

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