In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (gmane.linux.debian.devel.general) you wrote: > I'd like to split a package foo into 2 new packages : foo and > foo-daemon. To do that I moved the daemon and the other obvious files > with dh_install -pfoo-dameon. I used dh_installinit to install the > init.d file to the foo-daemon package.
> Everything seems fine, but when I upgrade foo to the new foo+foo-daemon. dpkg does not remove orphaned conffiles. > I get 2 files in /etc/init.d/ : > foo and foo-daemon. > Here are my questions : what am I doing wrong ? How can I remove the > /etc/init.d/foo unnecessary file ? If it is not *really* necessary do not move the conffile from one package to another. If it must be, you'd need to do this in the maintainerscripts: If old conffile was not modified by the local admin, remove it, otherwise rename foo to foo-daemon before the package is unpacked. I think there is some example code using dpkg-query in wiki.d.o. cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
