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)

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