[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#541426: /etc/default/eeepc-acpi-scripts not classified as configfile?

[Damyan Ivanov]

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-=| Björn Wiberg, Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 06:31:30AM +0200 |=-
> Package: eeepc-acpi-scripts
> Version: 1.1.1
> Severity: normal
> 
> The file /etc/default/eeepc-acpi-scripts does not seem to be considered a configuration file.

They are conffiles, which is a special type of a configuration files. 
By design, the admin is prompted when the new package ships different 
conffile and the local file was changed. There is nothing the package 
itself can do about it.

> I have /etc/default/eeepc-acpi-scripts.dpkg-new in place and 
> 'apt-get upgrade' does not automatically consider leaving my 
> modified version of the file in place and replacing the .dpkg-new 
> one with the new file from the package, like other packages do.

The whole point of dpkg conffile handling is that in general you need 
to know about the fact that the conffile was changed in the package 
and may want to integrate the changes in the local version. Otherwise 
the package may break.

Can you give an example of a package that blindly ignores new versions 
of modified conffiles?

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dam
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