Bug#399829: iceweasel: Bogus conffile questions

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Mon Dec 21 12:52:43 UTC 2009


reassign 399829 dpkg
thanks

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:23:01AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 2.0+dfsg-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Upon upgrading my sid chroot, I have been asked three conffile questions:
> 
> Configuration file `/etc/iceweasel/profile/bookmarks.html'
>  ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
>  ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
>    What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
>     Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
>     N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
>       D     : show the differences between the versions
>       Z     : background this process to examine the situation
>  The default action is to keep your current version.
> *** bookmarks.html (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? I
> Installing new version of config file /etc/iceweasel/profile/bookmarks.html ...
> 
> Configuration file `/etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc'
>  ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
>  ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
>    What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
>     Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
>     N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
>       D     : show the differences between the versions
>       Z     : background this process to examine the situation
>  The default action is to keep your current version.
> *** iceweaselrc (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? I
> Installing new version of config file /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc ...
> 
> Configuration file `/etc/iceweasel/pref/iceweasel.js'
>  ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
>  ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
>    What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
>     Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
>     N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
>       D     : show the differences between the versions
>       Z     : background this process to examine the situation
>  The default action is to keep your current version.
> *** iceweasel.js (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? 
> 
> I am sure that I never have changed anything firefox-related in /etc.

I am pretty sure such things happened to me, on various different
packages, for files I never modified.

This sounds like a bug in dpkg, so I'll leave that to dpkg maintainers.

Cheers,

Mike





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