Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hi, > > a long time ago, packages using GConf used to ship schemas > in /etc/gconf/schemas. Now, they are moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. > However, during upgrades, dpkg would let the old file in place since it > was a conffile. This is why dh_gconf still adds, in the postrm, a > snippet to purge these conffiles if they still exist in the old place. > > I’m considering asking for the removal of this snippet, since it is only > useful for those having upgraded a pre-woody system all along. While I’m > one of those doing that, I’m not sure there are as many people like > that, and I guess they could live with some file left over if they have > already been left over for so many years. > > Thoughts anyone?
We only support the upgrade from one stable version to the next one, though it's always appreciated that we don't break the upgrade when skipping one release when easily possible. For pre-woody stuff, I would not hesitate and just clean up the code. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
