Package: ucf Version: 3.0025+nmu1 Severity: normal Ucf allows a user to start a new shell to examine changes in configuration file, but the user is given no information about where to find a maintainer version of the file.
While testing a not yet released version of afterstep, ucf showed me with the following dialog: | A new version of configuration file /etc/X11/afterstep/standard_categories is available, but the | | version installed currently has been locally modified. | | | | What do you want to do about modified configuration file standard_categories? I couldn't have the differences displayed because: | The differences between the files are too large to display. | so I chose the new shell option to compare the files manually. In simillar situations, dpkg creates the .dpkg-new and .dpkg-old files, but surprisingly ucf failed to do this - the /etc/X11/afterstep contained only one file that matched the standard_categories name: # ls -la /etc/X11/afterstep/*standard_categories* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 112629 03-04 18:17 /etc/X11/afterstep/standard_categories I'm the maintainer of the afterstep package, so I know that new version of the file is included in /usr/share/afterstep/ucf directory (and ucf is called with the `--three-way /usr/share/afterstep/ucf/standard_categories /etc/X11/afterstep/standard_categories' options), but how an ordinary user is supposed to know this? Regards, robert -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (200, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages ucf depends on: ii coreutils 8.5-1 GNU core utilities ii debconf 1.5.38 Debian configuration management sy ucf recommends no packages. ucf suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/ucf.conf changed [not included] -- debconf information: * ucf/show_diff: * ucf/changeprompt_threeway: install_new ucf/title: * ucf/changeprompt: install_new * ucf/conflicts_found: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org