Having conffiles be deletable is a feature. Yes, it would be nice if dpkg was move verbose about it (perhaps listing every deleted conffile with a "not reinstating deleted conffile /path/to/file" during installation?), but changing the behaviour to silently restore deleted files breaks some pretty fundamental assumptions about dpkg conffile handling.
"Not there" is a valid user-defined state, just as "changed" is, and you certainly wouldn't want us overwriting changed files randomly. -- can't install apache2.2-common (2.2.14-5ubuntu8) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576255 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
