Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ifupdown
None of the files installed under /etc are marked as configuration files. User customizations to those files get overwritten without warning when ifupdown is updated. ,---- | $ dpkg -L ifupdown | grep /etc | /etc | /etc/network | /etc/network/if-pre-up.d | /etc/network/if-up.d | /etc/network/if-up.d/upstart | /etc/network/if-down.d | /etc/network/if-down.d/upstart | /etc/network/if-post-down.d | /etc/init.d | /etc/init | /etc/init/network-interface-security.conf | /etc/init/network-interface.conf | /etc/init/networking.conf | /etc/init.d/network-interface-security | /etc/init.d/network-interface | $ dpkg -s ifupdown | Package: ifupdown | Status: install ok installed | Priority: important | Section: admin | Installed-Size: 272 | Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> | Architecture: i386 | Version: 0.6.8ubuntu29 | Replaces: netbase (<< 4.00) | Depends: net-tools, libc6 (>= 2.7), debconf (>= 1.2.0) | debconf-2.0, upstart-job, lsb-base (>= 1.3-9ubuntu3), netbase (>= 4.30ubuntu2) | Suggests: iproute, dhcp3-client | dhcp-client, ppp | Breaks: udev (<< 136-1) | Description: high level tools to configure network interfaces | This package provides the tools ifup and ifdown which may be used to | configure (or, respectively, deconfigure) network interfaces based on | interface definitions in the file /etc/network/interfaces. | Original-Maintainer: Anthony Towns <a...@debian.org> `---- See also http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config- files ** Affects: ifupdown (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Files in /etc should be conffiles https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574042 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
