Re: keeping files from one version to the other.

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:08:07PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:52:31PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > It seems to me that it would be overzealous to worry about that now...
> > creating a special /usr/share/ppp directory (or whatever) just for this
> > purpose, and linking the files in doc/ppp/examples to these.
> > 
> > We can do it when (or if) dpkg starts supports exclusion of directories on
> > installation.
> 
> But when that happens, there may be a lot of work to do.  Good for new
> packages to be upgrade-ready.

It doesn't make sense to plan ahead for a feature that may or may not ever
exist.  Since you don't know how it will be implemented, you would be guessing
as to how to make your package support it.

-- 
 - mdz


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