On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 10:56:27PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > At least 4 major packages are presently affected by conffile prompts > during upgrades from Sarge to current testing, because the name of the > package owning some conffile changed. When dpkg queries "what is the > md5sum of the old conffile", it probably looks only for md5sums of > files owned by the old package, and so finds nothing, and the usual > logic doesn't apply. > > See also bullet 3 of Bill Allombert's message titled "Some bits of > experience gained from handling upgrade-reports"; this is a similar > situation: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/06/msg00006.html > > Bill's simple recipe is to remove the conffile in preinst if the > md5sum of the conffile matches that of the stable version. > http://dpkg.org/ has an even better example, which plays nicely even > for upgrades from versions not in the stable release; it works by > parsing the dpkg status database with sed (and not distinguising > between which package owns a conffile).
Hello Rene, We really have to fix this problem before the release. What can I do so that this bug is finally addressed ? Would you accept a patch that remove the offending file in the preinst if the md5sum match the sarge version ? Cheers, Bill. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]