Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.7.2 Severity: minor According to dpkg-maintscript-helper(1), the current implementation of rm_conffile preserves locally modified conffiles by renaming them to <conffile>.dpkg-bak.
This does not work in certain cases where the (modified) conffile should continue to be used. For example, since cron-3.0pl1-112 we no longer ship /etc/cron.monthly/standard; it's been empty for almost a decade. Using rm_conffile to remove it and preserve possible local changes will not work in this case because standard.dpkg-bak is not a valid name for files in /etc/cron.* directories. Jobs added to this file would therefore no longer be run. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii coreutils 8.5-1 GNU core utilities ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.11.1-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libselinux1 2.0.94-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii xz-utils 4.999.9beta+20100527-1 XZ-format compression utilities ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.7.25.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
