Timothy G Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anders Kaseorg and I created a system of CDBS modules (which we've > tentatively packaged as the config-package-dev package) for creating > Debian configuration packages. By configuration packages, we mean > packages that configure an existing Debian system by applying > dpkg-divert to configuration files. Our configuration package system > makes the process of creating configuration packages efficient.
It's generally accepted wisdom that dpkg-divert doesn't work properly with configuration files and isn't safe. I admit to have done something similar in the past, but I have noticed odd things that didn't matter for my particular use, but which meant that the support didn't work right. That's likely to be an issue for a general package. Fixing dpkg-divert to work correctly with configuration files (if possible) would probably be a good idea. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
