[Bug 816117] Re: Files installed by ifupdown in /etc/init should be conffiles

[Christian Hudon]

I am using lucid. I had checked in the latest source package before
reporting the bug. When I didn't see a "conffiles" in the Debian
directory, I assumed this bug was still there. Sorry about the dup.

Could this fix please be backported to lucid, then? This kind of thing
is really annoying to sysadmins, who are more likely to run the LTS
releases. I can help if you want. Until I figured out this problem, I
lost Internet connectivity multiple times on some of my servers (and had
to physically get to the console to restart the network connection). It
took me a while to suspect this, because .debs usually never ignore
local modifications in /etc.

Thanks.

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Title:
  Files installed by ifupdown in /etc/init should be conffiles

Status in “ifupdown” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I needed to make a change in /etc/init/network-interface.conf to make
  my persistent PPP connection work with upstart. However my change kept
  going away after a couple of months. It took me a while to figure out
  why. The files installed by ifupdown in /etc/init are not marked as
  conffiles!

  Please mark /etc/init/network-interface.conf and friends as conffiles,
  so if a sysadmin needs to make change to these files, they are
  retained and do not disappear silently the next time the ifupdown
  package is upgraded!

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