Bug#34296: marked as done (/etc/apt/sources.list is a conffile)
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From: Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>
To: Debian Bugs <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: /etc/apt/sources.list is a conffile
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Package: apt
Version: 0.1.9
/etc/apt/sources.list is a conffile in the dpkg sense.
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.
A better approach, IMHO, would be to create this file in the postinst,
only when it does not exist.
This way, upgrading apt would be completely smooth.
Thanks.
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