Hi,
digging a little bit into dpkg's code I found this in configure.c
deferred_configure(pkg)
{
...
for (conff = pkg->installed.conffiles; conff; conff = conff->next)
deferred_configure_conffile(pkg, conff);
...
}
That acts on all conffiles known to the package, including those that
are marked as obsolete. But if they are marked as obsolete *here*, they
may have been overtaken by another package that is currently unpackaged,
too, but not yet configured. In that case the current package will
"consume" the .dpkg-new ffrom a different package.
shouldn't the following change fix this by skipping obsolete conffiles?
for (conff = pkg->installed.conffiles; conff; conff = conff->next)
if (!conff->obsolete)
deferred_configure_conffile(pkg, conff);
A quick test shows that this would work.
Andreas
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