On 2014-07-16 13:46:12 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 11:41:25 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2014-07-13 13:17:24 +0200, Arno Töll wrote: > > > Unfortunately it turns out, that /a lot/ of people use "aptitude > > > --purge-unused safe-upgrade", or the apt equivalent "apt-get > > > dist-upgrade --purge" which causes dpkg to purge the user's > > > configuration, in particular enabled modules, during the upgrade > > > because apache2.2-common disappears in that step. [...] > > > > Is there any reason why apt-get/aptitude removes the config files > > just after the package is removed, and not at the end of the upgrade > > process? IMHO, doing the later is safer and would solve this problem > > with Apache. > > It just calls dpkg with --purge.
But what I meant is that it could do 2 passes: one without --purge, and a second one with --purge on the removed packages. Or... > Something that would also fix this issue (among other upgrade > problems) is using dpkg “transactions”: > > <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=579790#82> Yes! -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140717010710.ga26...@xvii.vinc17.org