[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#843116: please reopen #843116 the avahi-daemon dangling symlink.

[Michael Biebl]

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Am 04.11.2016 um 07:43 schrieb shirish शिरीष:
> Dear Michael,
> 
> Please re-open the bug. Even as you state that I "might have" deleted
> it . Just to make sure that it wasn't the case, I reinstalled the
> package to see what happens -
> 
> and as can be seen ─[$] sudo aptitude reinstall avahi-daemon
> libavahi-core7

Oh, that's a misunderstanding how dpkg handles conffiles (which any file
in /etc is by default).
Modifications to conffiles are preserved by dpkg, removing a file is
such a modification which is preserved.

To get the conffile back, you have two options
1/ apt purge / dpkg --purge the package and install it anew

2/ use "dpkg --force-confmiss" when installing the package to restore
missing conffiles. Read "dpkg --force-help" for more details.


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