> > Now, upon upgrade, debconf informed me that the file from the new > > package differs from the existing file "created by you or a script", > > as usual. What I think it should have done is either parse the old > > file and put the data in the new one (at a first glance, the file > > format seemed very different, however upon closer inspection it was > > only the order and the comments that have changed, not the syntax), or > > rather call again the script that originally created that file.
This has nothing to do with debconf, is regular dpkg conffile handling, and is not a bug. -- see shy jo
