[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Bialasinski) writes: > >> "MS" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > MS> Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> will dpkg remove a conffile on a upgrade, if I remove it from the > >> package? > > MS> I guess so. Why don't you try it on your system? Make a backup > MS> before. > > I tried, and it didn't. I don't know if this is intentional or because > I altered the conffile, so I asked.
See what I do in fvwm95 with regard to changing conffiles. Basically, all this is done in the preinst, with a little check to see if the user has modified the conffile. If they have, then the conffile is not removed and a message is printed telling the sysadmin to do some cleanup work (but installation continues). If they haven't modified it, the file is then moved to a directory which is cleaned up in the postinst. (This is so an abort-upgrade can recover the old configuration). I stole this idea (and most of the code) from the fvwm2 maintainer, who does something similar to deal with this situation.
