Package: checkinstall Version: 1.6.2-4 Severity: normal Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer, checkinstall 1.6.2-4 does not tag conffiles of packages it creates as such.Therefore, files of a created package in /etc will be deleted when the package
is removed. This has already been reported for Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/checkinstall/+bug/1304760 A patch is attached to fix this problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages checkinstall depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.16.15 ii file 5.11-2+deb7u3 ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u1 Versions of packages checkinstall recommends: ii make 3.81-8.2 Versions of packages checkinstall suggests: pn gettext <none> -- no debconf information
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