Hello developers, Trying to run insserv and dependency based boot sequence on my workstation I run into a phenomenon I cannot understand.
Let's see an example: xserver-xorg package. I have latest version from unstable: ii xserver-xorg 1:7.3+10 the X.Org X server Let's see the content of the package: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -L xserver-xorg /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/copyright /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/NEWS.Debian.gz /usr/share/bug /usr/share/bug/xserver-xorg /usr/share/bug/xserver-xorg/script /etc/init.d/xserver-xorg Do you see the last line? Content of /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xorg.list is exactly the same. File /etc/init.d/xserver-xorg of course exists on my filesystem: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /etc/init.d/xserver-xorg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 805 Jun 3 2007 /etc/init.d/xserver-xorg After I've been told and assured that /etc/init.d/xserver-xorg has been removed from the package I downloaded the deb file and checked the content with dpkg-deb -c. The man who told me that is damn right: file does not exist in the package. So, why it still exists? I read Debian Policy, section 10.7.3[1] but it does not say what shall happen if after upgrade of the package it does not provide conffile anymore. Is the only way to make sure that conffiles do not clutter filesystem to remove them in maintainer's script on upgrade from previous version? Regards Artur [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.3 -- http://www.last.fm/user/arturcz/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]