Should is different than did, though I don't know the details on how
dpkg makes the determination on how a file has changed from the default.
Maybe there is something wrong with my system in particular.
I restored the file taken from a backup taken immediately before the
upgrade, so I'm fairly sure it did happen.
I'll try to reproduce later this week when I can take some downtime.
Thanks for the quick response. Not all maintainers are so mindful of
their packages.
Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
Jesse Molina wrote:
Package: courier-mta
Version: 0.57.0-1
Severity: important
Upon an upgrade of courier-mta today, it overwrote my esmtp PAM file without
asking!
During installation, the following line was displayed;
"Installing new version of config file /etc/pam.d/esmtp ..."
Too bad I already had a customized esmtp file. This cut off my ability to
submit new mails via authenticated relay over the MSA port.
If my memory is correct, this isn't the first time this has happened, though
I'm not positive.
Expected behavior is for the install script to ask before overwriting a
user-modified configuration file. I'm pretty sure this is in policy somewhere.
/etc/pam.d/esmtp is a conffile, so dpkg should handle this correctly.
Regards
Racke
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