On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:59:30AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > The upgrade to 4.2.1-10 blew away my whole configuration really. Firstly it > asked me a few additional questions (not the whole lot), then wrote the > basic XF86Config-4 which of course didn't include my dual head setup etc. I tested this upgrade scenario, and did not see this behavior. Since you are a Debian developer, perhaps you can find the logic bug in /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.postinst. > If I now run dpkg-reconfigure, it asks all the questions again and then says > that nothing was written because XF86Config-4 has been customised. Fine, > but why didn't it recognise that it was customised during the upgrade, It should have. > and why does it need to ask the questions if it's been customised already? Because "Manage <foo> with debconf?" is Considered Harmful. > I have no NEWS.Debian file in the directory you mentioned. It might be fruitful for you to review the logs of the bug report to which you are contributing. -- G. Branden Robinson | Any man who does not realize that Debian GNU/Linux | he is half an animal is only half a branden@debian.org | man. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Thornton Wilder
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