Bug#223929: dpkg-reconfigure should write a file

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

tags 223929 - moreinfo
tags 223929 - unreproducible
severity 223929 grave
thanks

Hi Branden,

I was wondering why I wasn't able to configure X for my new graphics card.

A XFree86Config-4 without a .md5sum file is the common case for people
upgrading from Debian 3.0.

dpkg-reconfigure should really work in such cases.

Perhaps some kind of "Do you _really_ want to overwrite this file?"
question would do, but silently doing nothing is IMHO even wrong when it's
documented in a README. At least a big fat message "NOTHING WAS WRITTEN,
please read /path/to/FAQ." should be issued.

cu
Adrian

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