Comment 1 for bug 622885
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| Adam Conrad (adconrad) wrote Re: users should be warned that they have locally changed conffiles when maintainer scirpts fail | #1 |
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As noted in the other bug, perhaps a nice bit of verbosity on dpkg's part would curb a lot of these "I deleted everything, but it didn't come back, I don't understand" issues.
Something like, as we encounter deleted conffiles, printing:
"Not reinstating deleted conffile /path/to/file because --force-conf-miss not used" or something like that.
Yeah, it would be a bit chatty, but most people wouldn't see it all that often, and the people who do things like "rm -rf /etc/apache2 && apt-get --reinstall install apache2\*" might see it flash by enough times to understand what's going on?