[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#656085: Bug#656085: mailman: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user

Thijs Kinkhorst thijs at debian.org
Fri Feb 3 12:46:00 UTC 2012


On Mon, January 16, 2012 12:36, Holger Levsen wrote:
>   Setting up mailman (1:2.1.14-3) ...
>
>   Configuration file `/etc/cron.d/mailman'
>    ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
>    ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.

This stems from the fact that historically (since the 20th century) this
file has been created by just echo'ing it from postinst, and I recently
moved this into a proper conffile.

Will need to see how I can convince dpkg that this file did indeed change
into a conffile but that that is expected.


Thijs






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