Steve M. Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have two systems. Both track unstable, and have package > locales at version 2.0.16.
> On one system, package locales owns /etc/default/locale, on the other, > it doesn't. Should the file be owned by locales or not? > Could the situation arise by upgrades? Yes. > SYSTEM 1 [...] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] --search /etc/default/locale > locales: /etc/default/locale [...] Some versions of the locales package contained the file, but it stopped being shipped in 2.6.1-3 (see bug #441360). dpkg nowadays tracks orphaned conffiles, i.e. conffiles that previously were owned by a package and have not been removed. It will still find them with dpkg -S, and list them in dpkg -s. System one probably once had a locale package that shipped the file installed. cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
