Control: severity -1 important On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 09:25:28PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed the piuparts > upgrade test because dpkg detected a conffile as being modified and then > prompted the user for an action. As there is no user input, this fails. > But this is not the real problem, the real problem is that this prompt > shows up in the first place, as there was nobody modifying this conffile > at all, the package has just been installed and upgraded...
This is actually ucf vs conffile in different packages. > This is a violation of policy 10.7.3, see > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#behavior, > which says "[These scripts handling conffiles] must not ask unnecessary > questions (particularly during upgrades), and must otherwise be good > citizens." But this is about conffiles, not scripts. Bastian -- Conquest is easy. Control is not. -- Kirk, "Mirror, Mirror", stardate unknown