Configuration file choices during upgrades

[Bill Christiansen]

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 21:07 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 07:31:51AM +1300, Bill Christiansen wrote:
> 
> > I notice that when installing certain updates you get prompted as to
> > whether you want to keep your existing version of a configuration file
> > or install the package maintainers version. Is there any recommended
> > action here and is choosing the default action likely to stop anything
> > from working? (Sorry I didn't write down which packages were involved).
> 
> This should only happen if you modified the file in question, except for
> some unusual circumstances.  It is generally assumed that if you modified
> the file, you should be able to make an informed choice about whether you
> need to preserve your changes or not.
> 
> -- 
>  - mdz
> 
Thanks for the answers, I didn't manually edit these files so must just
be due to Hoary development. :-)