Ian Jackson writes:
> Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Transitional packages with conffiles"):
>> Looking into the cause we discovered that the problem is that
>> dhcp3-client is now a transitional package that pulls in
>> isc-dhcp-client. The new package expects its config files in /etc/dhcp
>> whi
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 02:01:37PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Well surely the question is: why are the files moved to a different
> directory ? Why is the package renamed, even ? Do we need to be able
> to co-install the old and new ISC DHCP clients ?!
The original dhcp-client was version 2. d
Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Transitional packages with conffiles"):
> Looking into the cause we discovered that the problem is that
> dhcp3-client is now a transitional package that pulls in
> isc-dhcp-client. The new package expects its config files in /etc/dhcp
> while the old had /etc/dhcp3/.
On a somewhat related note:
If a package is manually installed, then replaced with a transitional
package, then apt should mark the transitional package's dependencies
as manually installed and the transitional package as automatically
installed. Otherwise, when one removes the transitional packa
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