Bug#236468: apt: --reinstall should allow to renew configuration files

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

reassign 236468 dpkg
thanks

On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 11:27:22AM +0100, Michael Holzt wrote:

> Currently a "apt-get install <package> --reinstall" invocation will not
> touch the configuration files, and does not ask when a configuration file
> was changed or is missing.

This behaviour is managed by dpkg, and apt does not override it.  You are
correct that by default, dpkg does not do anything about a missing
configuration file (this is considered a configuration change by the
administrator, and preserved).  You can override that with --force-confmiss
(a dpkg option, not an apt option).

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 - mdz