On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:26:02AM +0000, Roland Turner wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Dpkg is wrong, of course. > > > > Dpkg has no mechanism to handle conffiles disappearing across upgrades. > > Is this just an implementation choice in dpkg, or is there > insufficient information in the existing .deb files to enable > dpkg to, say, remove unmodified configuration files when a > package is being deleted, even if it's not being purged? The latter. > (It is conceivable that someone, somewhere is depending upon > deletion-without-purging to leave even unmodified configuration > files intact, but I assume that the idea behind > deletion-without-purging is to preserve local _changes_, not > just local copies of a removed package's standard out-of-the-box > configuration.) There should probably be a prompt for disappearing conffiles, similar to the one that is used for changing conffiles. -- G. Branden Robinson | Suffer before God and ye shall be Debian GNU/Linux | redeemed. God loves us, so He branden@debian.org | makes us suffer Christianity. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Aaron Dunsmore
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