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Re: Package modifying a user-modified config file? [Bug #780797]



On 03/21/2015 04:53 PM, James McCoy wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 04:36:20PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote:
>> On 03/21/2015 04:10 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
>>> The only trouble is /etc/ssh/sshd_config, which is not a conffile for
>>> whatever reason.
>>
>> Ugh.  Any file in /etc should be a conffile by Policy AFAICT so if
>> this is so I should probably file a bug about it.
> 
> No, there are both "configuration files" and "conffiles" according to
> policy (c.f. §10.7.1).  The latter are what dpkg will prompt about when
> there are user modifications and the package is shipping a changed
> conffile.

Ah, okay.  I wasn't entirely clear on that subtlety.

> Note that there is only a prompt when the user has modified it.

Ah, right... I likely hadn't modified ssh_config on this system, so
that would explain the lack of prompt.

Thank you for pointing out both of these details.

   -- Chris

-- 
Chris Knadle
Chris.Knadle@coredump.us


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