On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 07:38:11PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Package: x11-common > Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-2 > Severity: important > > When installing x11-common on my existing sid system that had the latest > xfree86-common installed, I was presented with conffile prompts for > /etc/X11/Xsession and /etc/X11/Xsession.options even though I have never > edited them. This is probably because dpkg doesn't know an md5sum for a > previous version of these conffiles *associated with the x11-common > package*, since they previously belonged to xfree86-common. You will > probably need to detect unmodified versions of the xfree86-common > conffiles in x11-xorg's preinst, and remove them so that they're not in > the way when dpkg goes to install the new conffiles.
Looking through the info that dpkg stores, it doesn't appear to keep the md5sum of the conffiles. Since I haven't stored the md5sum in the sarge packages, the only way to do this is to ship the xfree86-common conffile with the x11-common package. This strikes me as a really ugly thing to do, so I'm inclined to tag this one wontfix. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
