On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 03:43:17AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > I could create the file in postinst if it doesn't exist, but this seems like > > a Bad Idea<tm> for many reasons. Is there really no Right Way to do this > > except to leave them as two seperate files and have the user deal with it > > however they will? > > I'm not sure how dpkg handles conffiles plus diversions, but that seems like > the logical way to do it - both packages contain the file, and one of them > diverts the other package's file out of the way.
It seems more logical I think to use the first one. I was speaking in the general sense to find out the policy, but the specific matter is the file /etc/irc/servers.. ALL of the ircII based clients can use that file. epic uses it, epic4 (which I will be taking over and has prompted so many questions here and in #debian) uses /etc/irc/servers-epic4. There's no reason to have 2 files. ircii and bitchx could both use the same file, as could several other irc clients supporting server:port:password lists, noting that all but server are optional. There's an optional :nick, but it would be foolish to use that in a global file, wouldn't it? The default for epic and epic4 is to have irc.debian.org:6667 in that file. But once you change that for a list, you want your list to be honored (ie, a conffile) and my logic is that you'd want any compatible clients to use that list. David Welton commented that he never really stumbled across a good way to do that, but didn't really have time to mess with it much either.
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