Bug#318688: x11-common: conffile prompts for /etc/X11/Xsession* when replacing xfree86-common
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.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages x11-common depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.52 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.14.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii lsb-base 3.0-1 Linux Standard Base 2.0 init scrip
x11-common recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
x11-common/experimental_packages:
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