Debian bug report logs - #1482, boring messages

Subject: Bug#1482: dpkg --purge eats configuration files
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From: Raul Miller <moth@magenta.com>
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Package: dpkg
Version: 0.93.77

I just switched my tgif, xpm and fvwm usage from tgifR6, xpmR6, and
fvwmR6.  The way I did this was:

[1] dpkg -i --force-depends  [new package file list]
[2] dpkg -r  [old package list]
[3] dpkg --purge  [old package list]

At this point, my suspicions aroused by the messages I was getting
from dpkg, I looked for some familiar configuration files -- they were
missing.  I recreated them by:

[4] dpkg -i  [new package file list]

But I don't think that this is quite how the package overlaying
mechanisms are supposed to work.

--
Raul

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Raul Miller <moth@magenta.com>
Subject: Bug#1482: Acknowledgement (was: dpkg --purge eats configuration files)
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Subject: Bug#1482: dpkg --purge eats configuration files
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From: Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
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Raul Miller writes ("Bug#1482: dpkg --purge eats configuration files"):
> I just switched my tgif, xpm and fvwm usage from tgifR6, xpmR6, and
> fvwmR6.  The way I did this was:
>
> [1] dpkg -i --force-depends  [new package file list]
> [2] dpkg -r  [old package list]
> [3] dpkg --purge  [old package list]
>
> At this point, my suspicions aroused by the messages I was getting
> >from  dpkg, I looked for some familiar configuration files -- they were
> missing.  I recreated them by:
>
> [4] dpkg -i  [new package file list]
>
> But I don't think that this is quite how the package overlaying
> mechanisms are supposed to work.

Umm, there is a conceptual hole here related to conffiles.  I'll think
about what do do about it.

(The mechanism that allows a package to take over files belonging to
another package doesn't work for conffiles.)

Ian.

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Bug#1482: Info received (was Bug#1482: dpkg --purge eats configuration files)
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