[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philippe Troin) wrote on 12.06.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm stuck with the diald package, and I've got problems with users
> from old versions. The thing is:
> the files /etc/diald/diald.ip-{up,down} weren't conffiles, and now
> they are.
> Installing a new version of diald where the ip-up/down scripts are
> conffiles on top of an old version where they weren't results in
> overwriting of the files.
I'd like to call that a dpkg bug. When a file is a conffile in either the
new or the old package, dpkg ought to use conffile behaviour. Anything
else is just too dangerous.
Comments?
MfG Kai
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