Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > IMHO, comments should >> > be preserved, >> >> Often this is possible using sed on the configuration file. > > The thing is, upstream provides a quite complicated perl script to > handle the upgrades; and that script is pretty good at doing that, > apart from the fact that comments aren't preserved. > It will be very difficult to make it preserve comments, if not > impossible.
I looked at the script - it *has* clever code to preserve comments. I don't know what's going on, and I think we really need Vincent's old and new wwwoffle.conf files to debug this. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

