update-motd.d symlinks are not listed as conffiles

<cjwatson> kirkland: symlinks into /etc don't get to be conffiles
<kirkland> cjwatson: even if i add them manually to debian/conffiles ?
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<cjwatson> it's not a good idea anyway IMO!
<cjwatson> it involves the user editing stuff in /usr indirectly
<cjwatson> I'd strongly recommend some different approach
<kirkland> cjwatson: okay, thanks
<kirkland> lamont: ^
<cjwatson> for example you could write trivial conffile scripts in /etc that exec the programs in /usr
<kirkland> cjwatson: yeah, that's what i'll have to do
<kirkland> cjwatson: shell scripts that exec, rather than symlinks

Fixes committed to a branch at lp:~kirkland/update-notifier/559194.

Lamont (et al): please review and test thoroughly if you would like this to make Lucid GA.

Also, Lamont, please nominate it for Lucid, if you're happy with it.

This bug was fixed in the package update-notifier - 0.99.2

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update-notifier (0.99.2) lucid; urgency=low

  * 20-cpu-checker, 90-updates-available, 98-reboot-required,
    update-notifier-common.install, update-notifier-common.links:
    symlinking scripts into /etc/update-motd.d causes them *not*
    to be considered conffiles, so admins can't really edit or
    remove them to their liking; instead, install simple "exec"
    shell wrappers, LP: #559194
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:44:13 -0500

<lamont> mvo: update-manager-common delivers /etc/update-motd.d/91-release-upgrade as a symlink, rather than a file (which makes it not a conffile, and therefore it keeps coming back). Same bug, different package doing the delivery

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.134.2

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update-manager (1:0.134.2) lucid; urgency=low

  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py:
    - ignore lspci errors
  * UpdateManager/Core/MyCache.py:
    - simplify url schema for third party changelogs (LP: #45129)
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py:
    - check if the kernel returned from base-installer is downloadable
      (needed on hardy cdrom only upgrades)
  * debian/91-release-upgrade:
    - use a small script instead of a symlink to ensure that dpkg
      treats them as conffiles (LP: #559194)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:44:39 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package eucalyptus - 1.6.2-0ubuntu30

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eucalyptus (1.6.2-0ubuntu30) lucid; urgency=low

  * Cherry-pick merge from upstream 1.6.2, now on revision 1222
    - LP: #552883 - r1222, fix volume statistics
    - LP: #552829 - r1221, fix volume state
    - LP: #552115 - r1220, fix node registration when nc+cc colocated
    - LP: #551778 - r1219, fix sc documentation
    - LP: #545000 - r1218, fix bad bucket name handling
  * debian/control: recommend qemu-kvm, rather than kvm
  * eucalyptus-cc.install, eucalyptus-cc.links, rules, 15-eucalyptus-url:
    - relocate the help text and url to just after the 10-help-text links,
      and before 50-landscape-sysinfo, which should come after; also,
      install the script as a conffile in /etc, rather than a symlink
      which allows the admin to modify it without upgrades automatically
      stomping local changes, LP: #559194
  * 15-eucalyptus-url, eucalyptus-cc.install, eucalyptus-common.install:
    install in the eucalyptus-common package, improve logic of determining
    if on CLC
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:48:48 -0500