Hello, I've looked at this issue. Peter, you are modifying dma.conf it postinst to include configuration settings grabbed through debconf, e.g.:
16 db_get dma/relayhost 17 if [ -n "$RET" ]; then 18 sed -i -re 's@^[[:space:]]*(#+[[:space:]]*)?SMARTHOST([[:space:]]+.*)?$@SMARTHOST '"$RET@" /etc/dma/dma.conf 19 else 20 sed -i -re 's@^[[:space:]]*(#+[[:space:]]*)?SMARTHOST([[:space:]]+.*)?$@#SMARTHOST@' /etc/dma/dma.conf 21 fi As Andreas pointed out this is a policy violation. Maintainer scripts must not modify conffiles (note conffiles and configuration files mean different things, in a Debian context). The alternative way to work around this, is *not* to ship the configuration file as a conffile and complying with the policy by other means. I suggest: * not to mark /etc/dma/dma.conf as conffile (i.e. override dh_installdeb's standard behavior by using a package.conffiles file) or do not ship it at all, but generate it at postinst time. * depend on ucf, do a policy compliant preservation of user changes through it, continue to prompt using debconf * You may need to use of dpkg-maintscript-helper's conffile removal assistant, but please make sure to preserve user changes. Otherwise dpkg will ignore newer versions of the file, if it is not present in the newer version. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D
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