Comment 3 for bug 257229
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| Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote Re: [Bug 257229] Re: Spurious conffile prompt for unmodified /etc/dbus-1/system.d/bluetooth.conf | #3 |
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:51:30AM -0000, Chris Coulson wrote:
> I'm not sure how this usually works, but isn't the package maintainers
> version of the file compared with your local version in order to
> determine if the file has changed? If that is the case, then you would
> get a spurious prompt if the package maintainer modified their version
> in a later package. Or is that not meant to happen?
dpkg stores a checksum of the file shipped in the package and compares it to
the version on disk, so that you're only prompted if BOTH a) the package
maintainer updates it, and b) you modified it locally.
The appearance of the conffile prompt on an unmodified conffile generally
indicates a bug. The most common cases are that it has moved between
packages without careful handling, or is being modified by a script without
the user's knowledge.
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- mdz