On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 03:26:33AM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > The change to use .v4 is good IMHO,... nevertheless,... the old config file > will remain on these > old systems probably forever,... which is IMHO rather unclean.
Only if the administrator made local changes, which is the correct behaviour (the package manager has no business removing such files). If the circumstances are right, it will be renamed to iptables/rules.v4 anyway, and the package manager marks iptables/rules as "an obsolete configuration file", which is necessary in case you purge the package and the file still exists. Then it will be removed instead of left lying around. > On should not need to reinstall Debian (like Windows) to get it clean. Huh? You can just rm it. -- Jonathan Wiltshire j...@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51
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