Bug#99208: marked as done (dpkg asks about all conffiles individually)
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 07:03:28AM -0500 , Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:01:20AM +0100, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote:
> > I upgraded from xpuzzles 5.4.4-4 to 5.5.3-1 today, and dpkg asked me
> > about every single one of xpuzzles' app-defaults files, although I'm
> > pretty sure I haven't changed any of them. Have those files changed
> > from not being conffiles to being conffiles?
>
> Yes. Quoting Policy, section 12.8:
bla bla bla. This is NOT, what he was complaining. It was
> dpkg asked me about every single one of xpuzzles' app-defaults files,
> although I'm pretty sure I haven't changed any of them
that's the problem. Asking about NOT changed upgraded conffiles. IMHO it's
the X upgrade, which moved everything from /usr/X11R6/lib/appdefaults into
/etc/X11/app-defaults and the package was not expecting this
Petr Cech
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