tags 541426 moreinfo thanks -=| Björn Wiberg, Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 06:31:30AM +0200 |=- > Package: eeepc-acpi-scripts > Version: 1.1.1 > Severity: normal > > The file /etc/default/eeepc-acpi-scripts does not seem to be considered a > configuration file.
They are conffiles, which is a special type of a configuration files. By design, the admin is prompted when the new package ships different conffile and the local file was changed. There is nothing the package itself can do about it. > I have /etc/default/eeepc-acpi-scripts.dpkg-new in place and > 'apt-get upgrade' does not automatically consider leaving my > modified version of the file in place and replacing the .dpkg-new > one with the new file from the package, like other packages do. The whole point of dpkg conffile handling is that in general you need to know about the fact that the conffile was changed in the package and may want to integrate the changes in the local version. Otherwise the package may break. Can you give an example of a package that blindly ignores new versions of modified conffiles? -- dam
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