reassign 37424 lynx thanks Francesco Potorti` writes: > Package: lynx-ssl > Version: 2.8.1-1 > Severity: normal > > I installed lynx-ssl, which removed lynx. I then purged lynx, which > happily removed /etc/lynx.cfg, even if lynx-ssl was installed. >
I investigated a little more here. It is a bug in the postinst of lynx itself. If you install lynx /etc/lynx.cfg is listed as a conffile for lynx. If you then remove it and install lynx-ssl, the same /etc/lynx.cfg is listed as a conffile for lynx-ssl. Normally, if you now purge lynx, dpkg would not remove lynx.cfg because it is no longer registered as a conffile for lynx, but lynx has a special postrm which removes lynx.cfg on purge anyway. This should not be. Therefore I reassign the bug to lynx. I think there is also a bug in dpkg, because if different packages register the same conffile, the last one will silently win and dpkg will just overwrite the reference made my the first package. Therefore I file a bug to dpkg Christoph
