Hi there, On Fri, 27 May 2016 14:07:00 +0200 Francesco =?utf-8?Q?Potort=C3=AC?= <poto...@isti.cnr.it> wrote: > Package: smokeping > Version: 2.6.11-3 > Severity: normal > > I keep an "apache2.conf" file in /etc/smokeping, which is my backup of > my personalised /etc/apache2/smokeping.conf. > > When smokeping got updated, it deleted that file. > > I think it should not.
From what I know, the apache2 config file is considered as a config file for the smokeping package. as an example, this is how I see this in buster: # cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/smokeping.conffiles | grep apache2 /etc/apache2/conf-available/smokeping.conf if I were to venture a guess about what hapened here is that dpkg may have asked if this file should be overwritten during upgrade. if the upgrade was run in a non-interactive way, it's possible that this question was hushed or pre-answered in a way. what you could try in order to avoid having your config file get overwritten is you could use dpkg-divert(1) to add a divert rule for the file. This way the package will not overwrite it. cheers!
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