Package: ucf
Version: 3.0039
severity 925375 wishlist
retitle 925375 dpkg could set confnew/confold env variables for ucf
thanks
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Hi,
Yes, dpkg and ucf are independent, and they usually operate on
different files. dpkg does not take any action specificallyy witgh ucf
in mind, that is the domain of the maintainer scripts installed by
individual packages. Perhaps the communication might be better
As for UCF_FORCE_CONFFNEW, there is a treadeoff betweem just
replacing the configuration file versus leaving random files all over
/etc; the default action is to not clutter. As you have
discovcered. RETAIN_OLD=YES allows the user to override that choice.
I am leaving this bug open as a feature request.
Manoj
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