Bug#318688: x11-common: conffile prompts for /etc/X11/Xsession* when replacing xfree86-common
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 07:38:11PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Package: x11-common
> Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-2
> Severity: important
>
> When installing x11-common on my existing sid system that had the latest
> xfree86-common installed, I was presented with conffile prompts for
> /etc/X11/Xsession and /etc/X11/Xsession.options even though I have never
> edited them. This is probably because dpkg doesn't know an md5sum for a
> previous version of these conffiles *associated with the x11-common
> package*, since they previously belonged to xfree86-common. You will
> probably need to detect unmodified versions of the xfree86-common
> conffiles in x11-xorg's preinst, and remove them so that they're not in
> the way when dpkg goes to install the new conffiles.
Looking through the info that dpkg stores, it doesn't appear to keep the
md5sum of the conffiles. Since I haven't stored the md5sum in the sarge
packages, the only way to do this is to ship the xfree86-common conffile
with the x11-common package. This strikes me as a really ugly thing to do,
so I'm inclined to tag this one wontfix.
- David Nusinow
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