On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Arno Töll <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 24.07.2013 22:47, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> >> The bug in apache2 is that we still treat this situation as an
> >> upgrade  in the postinst even if there is nothing left of the old
> >> install. If we can detect it, we should probably treat it as a new
> >> install instead.
>
> I do not think we could in a deterministic way. We might be able to
> guess based on certain heuristics, like no conffiles whatsoever but the
> apache packages being installed. However, I am sure this will bite
> others who deliberately rm'ed all of /etc/apache2 because they think our
> configuration sucks anyway.


Arno,

could you please rethink the idea of re-adding apache2.2-common with
version Breaks: on all reverse depends (with versions from wheezy, the
jessie can be handled by filling RC bugs case-by-case).

O.
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Ondřej Surý <[email protected]>

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