Re: dpkg handling of configuration files
hilliard@metrolink.net (Robert D. Hilliard) writes:
> Chapter 9 of the Packaging Manual describes "Automatic handling of
> configuration files by dpkg". Essentially, this boils down to:
>
> If neither the user nor the package maintainer has changed the file,
> it is left alone. If one or the other has changed their version, then
> the changed version is preferred . . .
> If both have changed their version the user is prompted about the
> problem and must resolve the differences themselves.
>
> Almost every time I run dselect to upgrade, I get the message
> about "confiles created by you or a script", and asking me to select
> which to keep. In many cases, these are files that have not been
> changed since installation, in fact, in many cases they are files I
> didn't even know existed. As I understand the packaging manual,
> dselect should silently leave this alone, or if the package maintainer
> has changed the script, silently install the new one.
>
> This is annoying, and I would like to file a bug when it occurs,
> but I don't know if this a bug in dpkg or in the package being
> updated.
Look at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting.html
> Bob
>
>
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