Subject: Bug#2864: serious bug in amd!

From: Dominik Kubla <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 18:55:52 +0200

> Dominik Kubla writes ("Bug#2864: serious bug in amd!"):
> ...
> > The question is what happens to a conffile when the package is upgraded
> > and that file is no longer part of the new package?  Does dpkg delete it
> > without warning?
> 
> No, it's supposed to leave it lying around.
> 
> > I will investigate that issue before uploading the next revision
> > (which is due because of an error in the postinst script).
> 
> Let me know if the behaviour isn't as I expect.
> 
> Ian.
> 

The problem was a missing if-then-else guard around a rm statement in the
postrm script. Argh!
Fixed.

Dominik