Hi, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> Thanks for your opinion, but a misbehavior from dpkg is a bug, not > /merely/ a request for enhancement as implied by the /wishlist/ > severity. I suppose you misunderstood Guillem's response. The current behavior when a package installs files not contained in any other package but already present on the filesystem is (in my opinion, at least) correct. Some packages even rely on it, as Guillem explained. That doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement, though. As Guillem also mentioned, it would be useful for there to be a way to inform dpkg about files not contained in any package. Then a sysadmin could easily tell dpkg whether it is okay to overwrite the named files, and it would be possible to come up with a coherent policy for how to deal with unregistered files. Hope that helps, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
