Re: dpkg should prompt re missing conffiles [was Re: When bind9 reinstalls, no db.root]

2002-08-24 Thread Steve Greenland
On 24-Aug-02, 09:48 (CDT), Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 21:40, Steve Greenland wrote: > > While I'll grant you that "dangerous" is probably not the correct > > adjective, the current behaviour is correct. Debian policy is that > > packages don't override admin modifications to co

dpkg should prompt re missing conffiles [was Re: When bind9 reinstalls, no db.root]

2002-08-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 21:40, Steve Greenland wrote: > While I'll grant you that "dangerous" is probably not the correct > adjective, the current behaviour is correct. Debian policy is that > packages don't override admin modifications to configuration files. > Removing a file is a modification. End