On 2010-02-19 23:24 +0100, David Paleino wrote:

> reopen 564254
> reassign 564254 bash
> retitle 564254 remove /etc/bash_completion as conffile when upgrading from 
> 3.1dfsg-9
> thanks
>
> On Friday 19 February 2010 23:20:25, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
>> Since dpkg still has it as config file from bash, and
>> bash-completion only replaces files of bash (<< 3.1dfsg-9)
>> dpkg should complain.
>> 
>> You either need an unversioned replaces or bash needs
>> to remove the conf file.  See:
>> http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling
>
> I think it's best if bash handles it.
>
> The link above is useless in this case: the file isn't supposed to be modified
> by the user (in fact, it should belong to /usr/share/, we're already working
> on this upstream), so the maintainer shouldn't care about possible changes. I
> believe just removing the file if the version from which the user is upgrading
> is 3.1dfsg-9 is sufficient. I'm reassigning the bug.

You probably mean "less than 3.1dfsg-9", but in any case this does not
help because almost surely bash will already be at version 3.2-4 (the
version in Lenny) or higher anyway when people upgrade.  After all,
upgrades overleaping one stable release are generally unsupported.

Sven



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