[Bug 1569926] Re: Package seems to got modified without changing its version number

[Sworddragon]

I have figured out something new: On my laptop I have executed "apt-get
install lxdm --reinstall" to update the lxdm package. But after
executing "dpkg -S /etc/init/lxdm.conf" again I got again a match for
lxdm on this path. On checking the package with "apt-get download lxdm"
the file doesn't exist there. This means dpkg has not correctly updated
the package by cleaning up this obsolete configuration file. Now I do
even think that this issue is not about lxdm but maybe dpkg is just
causing migration issues.

** Also affects: dpkg (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Package seems to got modified without changing its version number

Status in dpkg package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in lxdm package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 dev and on my laptop and my desktop PC I have
  the same version of lxdm installed ( 0.5.3-1 ). On executing "dpkg -S
  /etc/init/lxdm.conf" on my laptop it shows "lxdm: /etc/init/lxdm.conf"
  but on my PC it shows "dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern
  /etc/init/lxdm.conf". This means that I have fetched in the past 2
  times the package lxdm 0.5.3-1 with different content in it.

  I have noticed this discrepancy as I have today purged for a test lxdm
  on my desktop PC and reinstalled it later. On rebooting my PC lxdm
  hasn't started automatically anymore (manually executing
  "/etc/init.d/lxdm" does solve this issue but I'm not sure if this is
  another bug (I'm still using upstart)).

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