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

[Björn Wiberg]

Hello Damyan!

Thank you for your reply!

On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> 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?

I believe apache2-mpm-prefork + apache2-common does this, for example. If 
there is a .dpkg-dist file present, it overwrites that one instead, does
not prompt, and keeps the current conffile.

Best regards,
Björn