On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 05:48:51PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > 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. It does; it stores this in /var/lib/dpkg/status. It's just not queriable. > 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. No, you would only need to ship the *md5sum* of the old xfree86-common conffile with the x11-common package, for comparison with the currently installed version of the file. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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