On Tuesday June 14 2005 1:23 pm, David Jardine wrote: > When upgrading to Sarge, I was asked if I wanted to keep my old > entry in /etc/debian_version or have it replaced by the package's > version. > > I was surprised to see that the default was to keep the old entry > (which explains why people using the --assume-yes option would > not see a change).
Yes, that's right, there's good reason for this. This allows you to go, "Oh, wait, this package doesn't cleanly handle local configurations, and has a new version of the config...I can sack it with a new version and reconfigure it all or keep the old version and hope it all works..." -- Paul Johnson Email and Instant Messenger (Jabber): [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ursine.ca/~baloo/
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