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[Simone Dal Maso <address@concealed>]

Hello,
yes, I modified /etc/sympa/sympa.conf, this is true, but this is the 
regular thing for almost all debian packages.
If you make a sympa update, and the configuration file is different from 
what the users has,, a message should appear, at least advising that the 
file will change.

The strange thing is that the version, 6.1.23, is the same. So I can't 
understand why there is an update if the version is the same.
Anyway, thank you for your answer.

Il 19/01/2017 00:45, Steve Shipway ha scritto:
> Simone;
>
> Is it possible that you made your configuration in the base files (
> possibly under /usr/lib or /usr/share ) rather than the global or
> per-domain configuration files ( usually under /etc/sympa ) ?  If you
> change the base default files, these will be replaced when the package
> is upgraded.  All changes should be made by overriding the defaults
> using the /etc/sympa config files.
>
> Another possibility is that the package was created wrong and did not
> specify the config directory or file.  This would be the case if you
> were to find your /etc/sympa.conf or /etc/wwsympa.conf being overwritten
> by a new package version.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On 19/01/17 01:08, Simone Dal Maso (via sympa-users Mailing List) wrote:
> > Hello,
> > yesterday during a regular apt-get update and upgrade some software
> > were updated, and also sympa.
> > I have sympa 6.1.23.
> >
> > I was not care about the version, but the surprise was that, after the
> > upgrade, I have a new sympa installed, and all my configuration was...
> > lost.
> > This is not acceptable... sorry but really I think iit is absurde that
> > during an update all configurations file were lost.
> > Anyway, I restored a backup of 2 days ago, and if I type:
> >
> > apt-get upgrade -s
> > for simulating, I can see:
> >  Conf sympa (6.1.23~dfsg-2+deb8u1 Debian:8.7/stable [amd64])
> >
> >
> >
> > so the version is the same?
> > 6.1.23?
> > And what can I do now for preventing my system to update sympa and
> > lost everything?
>
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