On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:06:15PM +0100, Mathias Behrle wrote: > * Betr.: " Re: [php-maint] Bug#463895: php5-common: /etc/cron.d/php5 not > installed" (Sun, 3 Feb 2008 20:33:53 -0800):
> > It's a conffile. To recover a conffile when reinstalling a package, you > > need to use the --force-confmiss option to dpkg. There is no bug in the > > php5 packages here. > Ok, thank you very much, didn't know that. > Despite this it isn't clear for me, why the conffile of the precedent package > was deleted instead of replaced. I don't know. It wasn't done by the official php5 package, which has appropriate "hands-off" handling of its conffiles. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]