Liam Healy <l...@healy.washington.dc.us> writes:

> Every upgrade for this package in the last year or more has overwritten
> /etc/openafs/cacheinfo without querying the user, as is required in
> Debian packages that are about to replace a configuration file that has
> been changed by the user.  This is a major problem for anyone who has a
> non-default cacheinfo, as it may be impossible to use AFS.

> This appears to violate Sec 10.7.3 of the policy manual:
> Configuration file handling must conform to the following behavior:
>     * local changes must be preserved during a package upgrade, and
> ...

> Therefore, I have given this report a severity of "serious".

Indeed, sorry, I hadn't noticed that before.  I'm surprised we haven't run
into it.  I'll try to get this fixed soon by properly reading the existing
cacheinfo file.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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