Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> writes: > On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> + <p> >> + A package that declares the same <tt>conffile</tt> as another, >> + conflicting package may see left-over configuration files from >> + that other package. > EPARSE on this sentence, it looks like some words are missing. Hm. All the words that I had intended to be there are there. I clearly need to rephrase it somehow, though, if it's not clear. How about: When two packages both declare the same <tt>conffile</tt>, they may see left-over configuration files from each other even though they conflict with each other. >> If a user removes (without purging) one >> + of the packages and installs the other, the new package will >> + take over the <tt>conffile</tt> from the old package. If the >> + file was modified by the user, it will be treated the same as >> + any other locally modified <tt>conffile</tt> during an >> + upgrade. >> + </p> -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org