[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) writes: > 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.
Look at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting.html > Bob > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
