Bug#222641: dpkg: [CONFFILE] should inform user when a conffile is not being replaced due to local deletion
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.18
Severity: wishlist
01:32PM|<Overfiend> people *really* do not understand that dpkg thinks
deletion of conffiles is a deliberate change
01:32PM|<Overfiend> maybe dpkg should chat about it the way it does in
other cases.
01:32PM|<Keybuk> aye, it should be obvious that 'rm /etc/init.d/evilness'
is a change that dpkg should honour
01:32PM|<Overfiend> "Not installing new version of conffile
/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/us, because it has been deleted locally."
01:32PM|<doogie> dpkg even has special options for forcing conffile
replacment
01:32PM|<Overfiend> or something like that
01:33PM|<Overfiend> doogie: *I* know that. Many of our users don't,
and don't even know why those options need to exist.
01:33PM|<Keybuk> that could be nice, with maybe a "Use --force-confmiss
to override, at your caution."
01:34PM|<doogie> file a wishlist bug about that.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux redwald 2.4.22-powerpc #1 Sat Oct 25 16:59:03 EST 2003 ppc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii dselect 1.10.18 a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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