Bug#246818: Deleting conffiles in maintainer scripts and the need to resurrect them later...

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

> So this would mean:
>
> - we add a remark to each of these files

OK...

> - for omega.map (and any other resurrected file) we implement a check
>   whether the file was removed manually (because the local admin found
>   the "not used" note) or by a maintainer script (in the previous
>   versions), ask the user and resurrect the file.

Well, the remark would IMO encourage the user not to remove the file so
that it doesn't even need to be resurrected when it comes back to use
(until what I see as a dpkg bug [no prompt when conffiles are updated in
the package but have been deleted by the admin; er, I didn't actually
verify that this is the case] is fixed).

And how do you know (your "check") whether the file was deleted by the
admin or by a maintainer script?

-- 
Florent