Bug#1104519: liblemonldap-ng-common-perl: prompts for unmodified conffile
Chris Hofstaedtler
zeha at debian.org
Thu May 1 16:11:50 BST 2025
* Santiago Vila <sanvila at debian.org> [250501 16:39]:
>>Is there a good way to fix that?
>
>Well, this is the only way it comes to mind:
>
>Before dpkg prompts about the file, calculate md5sum, if upgrading
>from bookworm and the md5sum matches the one in bookworm,
>quietly replace the file by the new one.
>
>Would this avoid dpkg's prompt?
I don't know exactly. I have seen packages that do creative things
to rectify such situations.
>For it to work, it would have to be done "soon" in the upgrade path
>(would any of preinst/postinst/prerm/postrm be appropriate?)
I imagine some preinst hacks will be necessary.
Chris
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