Torsten Werner wrote: > I this case the old conffiles *must* be moved out of the way because > they cause conflicts with gnome-volume-manager and klaptopdaemon and > maybe other packages. I cannot see that your suggestion (renaming > them) is any better than moving them to a tar file which is created > for other reasons anyway. I am not aware that the policy forces a > special way of handling broken conffiles. That is why I'll downgrade > severity.
Configuration file handling must conform to the following behavior:
* local changes must be preserved during a package upgrade
That is policy 10.7.3, which your "conffile handling" violates. I had local,
non-broken changes to the powerbtn files, and the upgrade failed to preserve
them.
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