Bug#223929: xserver-xfree86: dpkg-reconfigure doesn't.
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Not true. dpkg-reconfigure always runs the given package's postinst
> script, if one is available.
ah, see i'm not a dpkg expert.
> Sounds to me like you have modified this configuration file, and so the
> package maintainer scripts are trying not to clobber changes, just as
> dpkg tries not to clobber modified conffiles.
yes, i understand this is how the xfree86 stuff works, but i didn't change
the configuration. This was a clean install, where i selected the wrong
driver at install time, and then ran dpkg-reconfigure to fix the problem.
But XF86Config-4 didn't get re-generated.
I was, however, on MIPS. It is possible that there is an
architecture-specific component to this.
Ah -- here's an interesting detail: the
/var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum
file is *not present* on this machine. That would explain why the file
was never being overwritten. So the bug is simply that the md5sum file
isn't being created on a clean install. Or rather, clean upgrade from
stable.
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