Chapter 9 of the Packaging Manual describes "Automatic handling of
configuration files by dpkg". Essentially, this boils down to:
If neither the user nor the package maintainer has changed the file,
it is left alone. If one or the other has changed their version, then
the changed version is preferred . . .
If both have changed their version the user is prompted about the
problem and must resolve the differences themselves.
Almost every time I run dselect to upgrade, I get the message
about "confiles created by you or a script", and asking me to select
which to keep. In many cases, these are files that have not been
changed since installation, in fact, in many cases they are files I
didn't even know existed. As I understand the packaging manual,
dselect should silently leave this alone, or if the package maintainer
has changed the script, silently install the new one.
This is annoying, and I would like to file a bug when it occurs,
but I don't know if this a bug in dpkg or in the package being
updated.
Bob
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