Bug#239271: xserver-xfree86: [debconf] do modified config-file check at beginning of config script

[Matthias Ferdinand <mf@mferd.de>]

--On Sonntag, Januar 14, 2007 23:22:50 +0100 Brice Goglin 
<Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote:

> Hi Matthias,
>
> About 3 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding the
> maintainer scripts not checking whether the config files were modified
> by the user. Did you reproduce this problem recently? If not, I will
> close this bug in the next weeks.

Hi,

I just checked on an installation of "testing" (last update around Jan 07), 
with "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" (I am not using xfree86 anymore). The 
program writes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but copies the old config to a 
timestamped file and gives a warning about it.
Thats probably the best thing it could do :-)
Very nice, this is obsoletes my wishlist entry.

Best regards,

Matthias

PS: I also tried "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" but it just quits after 
a few seconds.