On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 07:21:04AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 04:39:08PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > > The real question is: what is reasonable behaviour? Keeping the file as > > What about this? > > Treat the disappearence of a conffile the same way as you treat any > other changes. Prompt the user as usual, if they answer yes, then > rename the file to .dpkg-old. Otherwise do nothing. > > Dpkg will still need to remember the .dpkg-old file so that later > on it can purge it. As much as I hate prompting, this is what I personally always had in mind. It's too hard to know what the right thing to do is. Best to prompt. -- G. Branden Robinson | It's not a matter of alienating Debian GNU/Linux | authors. They have every right to branden@debian.org | license their software however we http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | like. -- Craig Sanders
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