Quoting Sean Perry (shaleh@speakeasy.net): > curious. "I was preserving machine state during upgrades"? Does this > mean that you had dpkg set to not ask "You have modified this config > file, should I overwrite it?"? Like Nick, I'm quite sure I wasn't asked. I suspect this is because the question was set to a priority below debconf's cutoff. In my case, that was "medium".