Bug#34296: etc/apt/sources.list is a conffile
Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
> Since this file is commonly changed by the user to point to a near Debian
> mirror, dpkg asks very often about replacing this file by the version
> provided inside the .deb, which is not usually what the user wants.
> Normally the user ends up answering No all the time.
dpkg isn't supposed to ask if the file hasn't changed upstream. If it
has, presumably there's a reason, and the user might want to know
about it (new features, new defaults, whatever). This is one reason
we have conffiles.
Presumably the prompts will stop when the file stops changing upstream
(I'm not sure why it's been changing so often...)
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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
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