Subject: Bug#4480: Upgrading dpkg-ftp is a little broken

From: Guy Maor <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:35:48 -0500 (CDT)

Package: dpkg-ftp
Version: 1.4.3

After upgrading from 1.4.2, it wouldn't work without the user doing a
setup again:

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:32:34 -0500 (CDT)
From: Guy Maor <[email-masked]>
To: Debian User List <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: dpkg-ftp 1.4.3

On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Alex Romosan wrote:

> i hate to answer my own questions, but after comparing the files in
> 1.4.2 to 1.4.3 i've discovered that 1.4.3 will let you set the
> download directory as opposed to 1.4.2 when it was hardcoded. so one
> needs to setup the access mode again and after that everything will
> work just fine. shouldn't this be done automatically when installing
> the package? i think it should. maybe we should consider this a bug.

Yes, I think it's a bug.  1.4.3 could just wipe out the recorded data
in its postinst, forcing you to resetup, or it could come with 1.4.2's
hardcoded location as the default.

I'll file a report.

Guy