On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> wrote:
> * The dpkg-maintscript-helper tool has been introduced in dpkg 1.15.7.2 > to help packagers deal with renaming conffiles and removing obsolete > conffiles. This is a great addition; however, if the user has changed the conffile *and* the maintainer also changes it in the same version where it is moved, the user's file is left silently in place and the maintainer's installed as .dpkg-new. This seems surprising to me, as it means the behavior is different when the conffile moves than when it doesn't (if it hadn't moved, a question would be triggered). I had this issue with the recipes in http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling to start with, so it's not a knock on dpkg-maintscript-helper itself. I have an approach that does a three-way compare between old maintainer, new maintainer, and user versions and tries to be smart about it. If this behaviour is desirable I'll see if I can't make a patch for dpkg-maintscript-helper. (The cost is a hacky sed line in rules which rewrites prerm with the md5 of the new maintainer version.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktilbzrketve4wnkf1z6vlbrgqg9vlabvkeaz3...@mail.gmail.com
