On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 07:33:46 +0100, Andreas Metzler <ametz...@bebt.de> wrote: >On 2024-12-19 Andrey Rakhmatullin <w...@debian.org> wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 04:58:06PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: >>>> And it is actively harmful as if one edits the example configuration to >>>> have a useful configuration as dpkg will start annoying admins with >>>> "the example configuration has changed; what do you want to do" >>>> messages. > >>> Yes, but the thing is: I *do* want to see that message, to make sure >>> what changed upstream and fix my manual configuration accordingly. > >> In my (narrow) experience it's often the version number at the top and >> typo and whitespace fixes. > >Hello, > >Please submit bug reports against packages keeping (and updating) the >version number in a dpkg conffile and triggerring unnecessary conffile >prompts.
Maybe our conffile handling should be modified to automatically accept comment-only changes to dpkg-conffiles. Greetings Marc -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 6224 1600402
