On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> > > Perhaps better: copy it in the postinst, remove the old version in the
> > > postinst. Then if any problems arise, the original version will still
> > > be present.
> >
> > BAD idea. This will defeat the conffile change detection engine in dpkg, and
> > will cause problems in some cases. Don't do that.
>
> Did he just say that because of the typo ? s/postinst/preinst ?
Yes. As long as the copy/move is done in preinst, it will not cause problems
with the conffile handling by dpkg.
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