Bug#689780: yate-qt4: modifies conffiles during squeeze2wheezy upgrade (policy 10.7.3): /etc/yate/providers.conf

[Jonathan Nieder]

Hi Mark,

Mark Purcell wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Oct 2012 20:26:34 Andreas Beckmann wrote:

>> This only happens during distupgrades from squeeze to wheezy,
>> I couldn't reproduce on a plain install.
>
> The issue we have is providers.conf was originally shipped in yate-core/stable 
> and then was moved to a better package in yate-qt4/unstable.
>
> So while it is installed as a confflile, it is overwriting a conffile from another 
> package, which I have handled via Breaks/ Conflicts (See Bug: #666883).
>
> Do you have advice on how I can handle the change of package for a conffile and 
> thus provide a fix for your report?

See the handling of /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50git-core.el in the
maintainer scripts for git and git-el for an example.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan