On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 10:41:39PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 11:07:33PM +0200, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 09:27:00PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > > Where can we find documentation about moving conffiles between packages? > > > > 'Don't.' > > > > Basically, you'll have to keep xfree86-common around, not shipping that > > file, with a postinst that removes the file if modified. Then you have > > to add a Replaces: xfree86-common, from x11-common. > > Hmmm, then x11-common Pre-Depends: xfree86-common to make sure that > xfree86-common.postinst is run before x11-common is configured, > shouldn't it? Or maybe remove the conffile in xfree86-common.preinst?
I guess so, yeah. You can look at the xlibs/xkeyboard-config relationship in Ubuntu (source packages xorg and xkeyboard-config, respectively) to see how I sorted it out for the XKB data. > > If you don't care about the user always getting a notice that the file > > has been customised even when it hasn't, don't bother keeping the > > package around with a postinst to remove the file; just ad the Replaces. > > Hmmm again, the Replaces does exist, but if the file is not removed, > conflict still happens. Anyway if someone has time to investigate, > test and provide a patch, that would be very welcome. If the file isn't removed, there's no conflict, but dpkg prompts you because it thinks the conffile has changed.
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