[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#393962: Upgrade blows away configuration files if stored in /etc/mediawiki1.7

[Steve Langasek]

severity 393962 important
thanks

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:46:45AM -0600, GregM wrote:
> My configuration files LocalSettings.php and AdminSettings.php were put 
> in /etc/mediawiki1.7, as suggested in the README.Debian help doc.  In 
> the upgrade from 1.7.1-2 to 1.7.1-3, these files were blown away and 
> replaced by symbolic links to their couterparts in /var/lib/mediawiki1.7

Certainly a bug and a policy violation, but as 1.7.1-3 is the only version
of this package in the archive now and there is no mediawiki1.7 in sarge,
that makes it a non-RC upgrade issue.

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