On 2016-07-27 11:08, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > I looked at the piuparts log: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=825121;filename=sipdialer_1%3A1.10.2-1.log.gz;msg=5 > > and it confirms that the freeradius-client package was installed before > the radcli package, therefore, the preinst script tries to migrate the > configs. This is expected behavior.
Getting a dpkg conffile prompt is *not* expected behavior if the config file was not modified by the local admin. Migrating the conffile cannot be done in the preinst alone. > I've downgraded the severity in case anybody wants to discuss it > further, otherwise this bug can potentially be closed. So what you are trying to do is to a) rename a conffile and b) change its ownership to a different package at the same time. That is unfortunately not well supported by the current tools (e.g. dpkg-maintscript-helper). We had some more packages doing this, but right now I only remember initramfs-tools (has a bug and a patch by me). Cc:ed Holger in case he remembers some more. Is the config file shipped by the old and new packages the same (as in "bytewise identical")? Would that be possible? Andreas
