Bug#109691: Still a bug?
severity 109691 normal
tags 109691 moreinfo
thanks
> I've been trying to get a sendmail-tls package setup so that one could
> seemlessly change from sendmail to sendmail-tls (and back again).
> The conffiles names and contents are *identicle* in the two packages,
> and they each 'Replaces:' the other.
If the packages Replace: each other then they are *not* designed
to be used simultaneously. But there may still be a bug here ...
The sendmail package has changed enormously since this report was
filed, so it's hard to reproduce the original bug. I don't find
sendmail-tls in the archive at all.
Interestingly, the woody version of sendmail has *no* conffiles.
> After installing sendmail, then sendmail-tls, sendmail doesn't
> disapear, and a dpkg --purge on it will incorrectly (according
> to policy) remove the conffiles!
I wonder whether sendmail-tls failed to declare sendmail's conffiles
as conffiles. That would explain why, after installing sendmail-tls,
there were still sendmail conffiles on the system, and why, when
purging sendmail, these conffiles were removed. But then, I suppose
the conffiles would still have been listed in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/sendmail.list, right?
It seems the bug is that dpkg can delete conffiles that have been
"taken over" by a replacing package. Is this still your view?
--
Thomas
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