[Piuparts-devel] changed severity

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2016-07-27 11:08, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> 
> 
> I looked at the piuparts log:
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=825121;filename=sipdialer_1%3A1.10.2-1.log.gz;msg=5
> 
> and it confirms that the freeradius-client package was installed before
> the radcli package, therefore, the preinst script tries to migrate the
> configs.  This is expected behavior.

Getting a dpkg conffile prompt is *not* expected behavior if the config
file was not modified by the local admin.
Migrating the conffile cannot be done in the preinst alone.

> I've downgraded the severity in case anybody wants to discuss it
> further, otherwise this bug can potentially be closed.

So what you are trying to do is to
a) rename a conffile and
b) change its ownership to a different package
at the same time. That is unfortunately not well supported by the
current tools (e.g. dpkg-maintscript-helper).

We had some more packages doing this, but right now I only remember
initramfs-tools (has a bug and a patch by me). Cc:ed Holger in case he
remembers some more.

Is the config file shipped by the old and new packages the same (as in
"bytewise identical")? Would that be possible?


Andreas