Hello Damyan! Thank you for your reply!
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
The whole point of dpkg conffile handling is that in general you need to know about the fact that the conffile was changed in the package and may want to integrate the changes in the local version. Otherwise the package may break. Can you give an example of a package that blindly ignores new versions of modified conffiles?
I believe apache2-mpm-prefork + apache2-common does this, for example. If there is a .dpkg-dist file present, it overwrites that one instead, does
not prompt, and keeps the current conffile. Best regards, Björn
