Bug#448941: xserver-xorg: always gives "postinst warning: overwriting possibly-customised configuration"
forcemerge 374583 448941
thank you
Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg
> Version: 1:7.3+3
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> when I dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg twice in a row, the second run
> terminates with a warning:
>
> xserver-xorg postinst warning: overwriting possibly-customised configuration
> file; backup in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20071101203237
>
> The detection of a customized xorg.conf seems to be flawed since I
> didn't touch the xorg.conf file at all.
>
Yes, the xorg.conf generation code is known to not be very good... We have
several bugs related to this, I am merging with them. Some issues might be
avoided soon thanks to the server autoconfiguration, the postinst script
is being cleaned up a lot.
Brice
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