Re: Transitional packages with conffiles

2011-03-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ian Jackson writes: > Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Transitional packages with conffiles"): >> Looking into the cause we discovered that the problem is that >> dhcp3-client is now a transitional package that pulls in >> isc-dhcp-client. The new package expect

Re: Transitional packages with conffiles

2011-03-16 Thread brian m. carlson
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 02:01:37PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Well surely the question is: why are the files moved to a different > directory ? Why is the package renamed, even ? Do we need to be able > to co-install the old and new ISC DHCP clients ?! The original dhcp-client was version 2. d

Re: Transitional packages with conffiles

2011-03-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Transitional packages with conffiles"): > Looking into the cause we discovered that the problem is that > dhcp3-client is now a transitional package that pulls in > isc-dhcp-client. The new package expects its config files in /etc/dhcp > while

Re: Transitional packages with conffiles

2011-03-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On a somewhat related note: If a package is manually installed, then replaced with a transitional package, then apt should mark the transitional package's dependencies as manually installed and the transitional package as automatically installed. Otherwise, when one removes the transitional packa

Transitional packages with conffiles

2011-03-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
dhcp3-client is now a transitional package that pulls in isc-dhcp-client. The new package expects its config files in /etc/dhcp while the old had /etc/dhcp3/. The changes made to the old config no longer affect the new client. Which brings me to the subject of this mail: Transitional packages with