On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 02:53:20PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > (Jean-Christophe, you could have kept Joey in the CC in your reply)
Sorry. Will do. > Hi, > > On Thu, 01 Apr 2010, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: > > > The patch still seems good. From the history of > > > http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling , I see only one bugfix has > > > been made to that page since, that should be folded into the patch. It is > > > described here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/03/msg00795.html > > > > There is also the fact that the code on this page does not deal with the > > abort-upgrade condition. Code doing that (for moving conffile) > > should also test for abort-upgrade in prerm and put back in place the > > conffile; > > Is that really worth taking care of? Worst case, the old conffile is freshly > reinstalled and the user changes are lost... but downgrades are not > officially supported by Debian anyway. I am not talking about downgrades, but failing upgrades (such as the one you get when you can not unpack the package correctly). > Jean-Christophe, are you volunteering to add the support of downgrade in > the dpkg-conffile tool proposed by Joey? Not downgrade, but failed upgrade, yes. I will modify the wiki for now, and try to catch up on dpkg source. (several minutes later): I did add the snippets for removing conffiles. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100406145616.ga9...@oberon.tenebreuse.org
