Hello, On Mon, 06 Feb 2012, Sam Morris wrote: > And the conffile will not be removed. > > Is the user in the wrong here? debian-faq says no, as it specifically > advises the user of dch -l when performing a local build. The user > cannot know when he's rebuilding the package that a subsequent version > will remove the conffile, and the package maintainer cannot know that a > user has rebuilt the package locally. > > The same will happen when NMUs are prepared, if the package maintainer > is not careful about the version number that they invoke rm_conffile > with.
Good analysis, you're right. But the only fix that we can afford (since we want to preserve the API) is to update the documentation to recommend using a fake version bigger than $LASTVERSION and smaller than the version where the conffile is gone. In your example it would be "2-1~". Do you feel like suggesting a patch (or just an improved wording) for the manual page? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Pre-order a copy of the Debian Administrator's Handbook and help liberate it: http://debian-handbook.info/liberation/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
