[Bug 576255] Re: can't install apache2.2-common (2.2.14-5ubuntu8)

Adam Conrad adconrad at 0c3.net
Mon Aug 23 19:58:52 BST 2010


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.

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can't install apache2.2-common (2.2.14-5ubuntu8)
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