Branden Robinson wrote: > Dpkg is wrong, of course. > > Dpkg has no mechanism to handle conffiles disappearing across upgrades.
Is this just an implementation choice in dpkg, or is there insufficient information in the existing .deb files to enable dpkg to, say, remove unmodified configuration files when a package is being deleted, even if it's not being purged? (It is conceivable that someone, somewhere is depending upon deletion-without-purging to leave even unmodified configuration files intact, but I assume that the idea behind deletion-without-purging is to preserve local _changes_, not just local copies of a removed package's standard out-of-the-box configuration.) - Raz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
