Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 19 Jun 1998 10:20:20 +0000 Received: (qmail 16072 invoked from network); 19 Jun 1998 10:20:17 -0000 Received: from ppp-35.a2points.com (HELO ppp37.a2points.com) (root@195.10.6.35) by debian.novare.net with SMTP; 19 Jun 1998 10:20:17 -0000 Received: (from dwitch@localhost) by ppp37.a2points.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) id LAA10657; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 11:37:00 +0200 From: Yann Dirson Message-ID: <13706.12598.949480.662100@bylbo.nowhere.earth> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 11:36:54 +0200 (CEST) To: Debian bug-system submission Subject: lintian: could check for duplicate ownership of conffile X-Mailer: VM 6.47 under Emacs 19.34.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Package: lintian Version: 0.4.8 Severity: wishlist It should not be allowed that 2 packages with different names ever declare the same conffile, even if they conflict, as conffiles are not removed unless a package is really purged. Maybe lintian could check this to some extent. I'll report a bug against dpkg which does not barf in such a case. -- Yann Dirson | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.mygale.org/~ydirson/ | Check