Package: dpkg-ftp Version: 1.4.3 After upgrading from 1.4.2, it wouldn't work without the user doing a setup again:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:32:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: dpkg-ftp 1.4.3 On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Alex Romosan wrote: > i hate to answer my own questions, but after comparing the files in > 1.4.2 to 1.4.3 i've discovered that 1.4.3 will let you set the > download directory as opposed to 1.4.2 when it was hardcoded. so one > needs to setup the access mode again and after that everything will > work just fine. shouldn't this be done automatically when installing > the package? i think it should. maybe we should consider this a bug. Yes, I think it's a bug. 1.4.3 could just wipe out the recorded data in its postinst, forcing you to resetup, or it could come with 1.4.2's hardcoded location as the default. I'll file a report. Guy