[Bug 816117] Re: Files installed by ifupdown in /etc/init should be conffiles

[Christian Hudon]

I just want to note that you can prevent the "SRU itself will clobber
any local changes the user has made in lucid" by stashing away a copy of
said files in the preinst script. But I guess waiting for some other
changes for lucid in the package is fine too. But as it is now, local
changes will be overwritten again when upgrading to the next LTS
release...

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Title:
  Files installed by ifupdown in /etc/init should be conffiles

Status in “ifupdown” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “ifupdown” source package in Lucid:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I needed to make a change in /etc/init/network-interface.conf to make
  my persistent PPP connection work with upstart. However my change kept
  going away after a couple of months. It took me a while to figure out
  why. The files installed by ifupdown in /etc/init are not marked as
  conffiles!

  Please mark /etc/init/network-interface.conf and friends as conffiles,
  so if a sysadmin needs to make change to these files, they are
  retained and do not disappear silently the next time the ifupdown
  package is upgraded!

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