Agreed on all points. I suggest you read the dpkg bug report. To summarize, I'm suggesting that conffile changes be listed and the user offered a chance to resolve them as if the upstream confffiles were changed in the new release, but only when maintainer scripts fail.
This is purely a selfish interest, as I see a lot of bug reports to handle related to maintainer scripts failing because the service is somewhat broken (possibly unbeknownst to the user) at upgrade time. -- can't install apache2.2-common (2.2.14-5ubuntu8) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576255 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to apache2 in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
