Jerome> A same kind of problem is likely to happen for the conffiles Jerome> and other non-conffiles configuration files that I move from Jerome> wwsympa to sympa and that are been removed in wwsympa postrm.
Joey> I'm afraid you're on your own there; dpkg does not deal with Joey> shared conffiles well when the older package is removed I think Joey> it removes the conffile. Surely you mean "when the older package is _purged_"? I have done "dpkg --remove oldname ; apt-get install newname" many times on my system, and I think it works. Of course, one has to know in advance a name change is afoot .. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive.
