Files from conffiles not being installed

[Mugurel Tudor <mugurelu@go.ro>]

Hi,

I am trying to create some deb packages, and mostly it works ok except
one thing: the files that I have in debian/conffiles are not installed.

If I run dpkg -L mypackage.deb, after I install it, all the files are
listed, but on the disk the conf file does not appear.

I create the deb package by generating the binary-version,
control.tar.gz and data.tar.gz, and ar'ing all together after that (I
choose this aproach because the deb is generated from a binary package,
the dh scripts does not help me too much in this case).

In debian/, I only have a md5sums files, with md5sums for all files, a
control file, and the conffile. If I delete the conffile from debian/
folder, that all the files are installed OK, but in this care if I
chnage something in the configuration file and install a new version of
the package, the original file will be overwritten.

Any ideas where could be the problem? If you need aditional info, please
tell me so.

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Mugurel Tudor (mugurelu@go.ro)
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