* A Mennucc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050601 13:38]: > On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 01:42:36PM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote: > > Package: lpr-ppd > > Severity: grave > > Justification: causes non-serious data loss > > > > Replacing lpr-ppd with lprng should be a breeze, I read somewhere. But > > after the change, I was left with no /etc/printcap and a dead link to > > that location from /etc/lprng/printcap. Clearly, there is an upgrade > > path missing, even if lprng???s config format may be slightly different. > > > /etc/printcap is a "conffile" of lpr-ppd ; if > lpr-ppd is removed, /etc/printcap will still be there ; > but if you purge lpr-ppd , dpkg will delete /etc/printcap , > since it is not a conffile of lprng > > I see no easy way to solve this problem, since lpr-ppd was > removed from Debian some time ago > > 1) one way would be to have a dummy lpr-ppd package that depends > on lprng, and that does not have /etc/printcap as a conffile
If you drop the conffile, it won't be deleted. So, e.g. adding an updated lpr-ppd in the next point release would work - just, that there won't be another woody point release :( Also, just an empty dummy package w/o marking that file as conffile (and w/o shipping it at all) works. Cheers, Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]