[Aptitude-devel] Bug#707662: reinstall doesn't rewrite missing files

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 13 May 2013 12:24, Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> On 10 May 2013 09:04,  <jidanni at jidanni.org> wrote:
>> Package: aptitude
>> Version: 0.6.9.1-1
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> The man page should note that reinstall doesn't fix missing files...
>> # mv /etc/apache2/conf-available/php5-cgi.conf
>> # aptitude reinstall php5-cgi
>> # ls ... not found
>
> That is a conffile.  It will be recreated if you purge and then
> install, however reinstall does not work like that (more like remove
> then install; or upgrade) as otherwise a reinstall will lose user
> data.
>

So I will also check that reinstall does the same as an upgrade in this case.