id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,resolution,keywords,cc,fix_version,see_also 543,auto-updater should resolve conffile conflicts on -workstation,jdreed,,"This was originally the second half of #483: Right now, if anything triggers a dpkg conffile conflict, auto-update will hang indefinitely. Cluster machines invoke apttiude with ""-o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confnew"" On not-cluster machines, it's less clear. It sounds like Athena 9 used rpm's default behavior, which was the equivalent of --force-confold. I think ideally the update should fail and e-mail root (which may or may not go anywhere useful), leaving them to fix the upgrade, but I don't know if there's a way to make dpkg error out on conffile conflicts.",defect,closed,normal,Natty Alpha,--,fixed,,,,