Debian Bug report logs - #399829
dpkg: Conffile prompts when taking over conffiles from another package

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: iceweasel: Bogus conffile questions

Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:23:01 +0100

Package: iceweasel
Version: 2.0+dfsg-1
Severity: normal

Upon upgrading my sid chroot, I have been asked three conffile questions:

Configuration file `/etc/iceweasel/profile/bookmarks.html'
 ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
 ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
   What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
    Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
    N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
      D     : show the differences between the versions
      Z     : background this process to examine the situation
 The default action is to keep your current version.
*** bookmarks.html (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? I
Installing new version of config file /etc/iceweasel/profile/bookmarks.html ...

Configuration file `/etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc'
 ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
 ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
   What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
    Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
    N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
      D     : show the differences between the versions
      Z     : background this process to examine the situation
 The default action is to keep your current version.
*** iceweaselrc (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? I
Installing new version of config file /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc ...

Configuration file `/etc/iceweasel/pref/iceweasel.js'
 ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
 ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
   What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
    Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
    N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
      D     : show the differences between the versions
      Z     : background this process to examine the situation
 The default action is to keep your current version.
*** iceweasel.js (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? 

I am sure that I never have changed anything firefox-related in /etc.

Regards, Frank

-- System Information:
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-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Message #10 received at 399829@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>

To: 399829@bugs.debian.org, 399829-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: I saw this also

Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 23:21:18 +1100

I experienced these bogus dpkg conffile prompts on upgrade from firefox
to iceweasel also.

Thanks
Hamish
-- 
Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>

Message #18 received at 399829@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU>

To: 399829@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Also confirmed here

Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:28:47 -0800

I also see the spurious conffile questions reported in #399829.  The
upgrade in question is in Etch from firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2 to
iceweasel 2.0.0.1+dfsg-2 (I believe this is the first iceweasel package
to enter Etch).

best regards,

-- 
Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@princeton.edu>   Physics Department
WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/    Princeton University
GPG: public key ID 4F83C751                 Princeton, NJ 08544

Message #27 received at 399829@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>

To: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>, 399829@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#399829: iceweasel: Bogus conffile questions

Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:52:43 +0100

reassign 399829 dpkg
thanks

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:23:01AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 2.0+dfsg-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Upon upgrading my sid chroot, I have been asked three conffile questions:
> 
> Configuration file `/etc/iceweasel/profile/bookmarks.html'
>  ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
>  ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
>    What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
>     Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
>     N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
>       D     : show the differences between the versions
>       Z     : background this process to examine the situation
>  The default action is to keep your current version.
> *** bookmarks.html (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? I
> Installing new version of config file /etc/iceweasel/profile/bookmarks.html ...
> 
> Configuration file `/etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc'
>  ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
>  ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
>    What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
>     Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
>     N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
>       D     : show the differences between the versions
>       Z     : background this process to examine the situation
>  The default action is to keep your current version.
> *** iceweaselrc (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? I
> Installing new version of config file /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc ...
> 
> Configuration file `/etc/iceweasel/pref/iceweasel.js'
>  ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
>  ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
>    What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
>     Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
>     N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
>       D     : show the differences between the versions
>       Z     : background this process to examine the situation
>  The default action is to keep your current version.
> *** iceweasel.js (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? 
> 
> I am sure that I never have changed anything firefox-related in /etc.

I am pretty sure such things happened to me, on various different
packages, for files I never modified.

This sounds like a bug in dpkg, so I'll leave that to dpkg maintainers.

Cheers,

Mike

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