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

[HonoredMule]

Adam Conrad - "This isn't apache-specific, though it seems that apache
users seem to be one of the larger groups of people who think that
deleting conffiles will improve their lives somehow. Not really sure how
to curb that, but not with bugs in apache."

I didn't delete any config files, yet I also have this problem.  And if
apache upgrades break without faulty user intervertion, then it is most
definitely a packaging bug.  Locate reqtimeout returns only
"/usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_reqtimeout.so" but there has never been
any matching set of .conf and .load files in /etc/apache2/mods-
available, as verified by perusing full system backups dating back to
2010-07-31.  The problem just occurred for me a couple weeks ago after
no modification to the system--other than upgrades--since install at
2010-04-13.  If I had to make a guess, it would be that dpkg is
currently expecting a file that it didn't previously provide and then
assuming its absence implicates manual deletion, which is obviously a
problem for anyone who expects server upgrades between untampered states
to be reliable.  Shouldn't they?

I'm not convinced that manual deletion should be allowed to interfere
either.  Non-stock configuration (particularly living in /etc) is
sysadmin domain and none of dpkg's concern unless --purge --reinstall is
explicitly requested.  If user action has broken something, fine.  Let
user deal with it instead of taking down a service that might have been
working anyway (as it was).  All dpkg should be doing is reporting
/changes/ in requirements, in which case it should be supplying them.

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