etc-update currently has no way to check whether a particular configuration file has actually changed since it was installed. one way to fix this would be to have etc-update check to see if a checksum of the old file and a checksum of the new file match. if the md5 sums match, etc-update could automatically safely replace the old with the new, even if the new file contains changes. allowances would have to be made for the RCS header information at the beginning of the file, et cetera, but i think that this would be an excellent feature to have. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install an application (e.g. foo-0.1) => /etc/foo.conf 2. do not modify the file 3. upgrade the application, which changes the config file (e.g. foo-0.2) => /etc/foo.conf.net Actual Results: running etc-update will still ask to merge/replace/discard the new config file with the old Expected Results: etc-update should recognize that the old config file was unchanged since installation, and therefore can safely be replaced with the new config file.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11763 ***
