Your message dated Tue, 13 Aug 2013 18:05:18 +0200 (CEST) with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: For users who had base-files 6.8 installed, dpkg considers /etc/profile an (obsolete) conffile has caused the Debian Bug report #679356, regarding For users who had base-files 6.8 installed, dpkg considers /etc/profile an (obsolete) conffile to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: base-files Version: 6.11 Severity: normal base-files 6.8 had /etc/profile as a conffile. Thus, users who had 6.8 installed and subsequently upgraded to a later version will have /etc/profile marked as an obsolete conffile in the dpkg database: ~$ dpkg-query -f '${Conffiles}\n' -W base-files | grep obsolete /etc/profile 91901ce5707909cfec8b3a1a6efbfa61 obsolete - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages base-files depends on: ii gawk [awk] 1:4.0.1+dfsg-2 base-files recommends no packages. base-files suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---I see there are two options here: a) Waiting for dpkg to implement a way to fix this properly. b) Fix this improperly. I fear that fixing it improperly could be worse than doing nothing, so this is really a wontfix bug. As I have never been a fan of this wontfix thing, I'm closing it. If you feel this bug should be kept alive, then please reopen, reassign to dpkg and retitle it. Thanks.
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