Richard Braakman wrote: [re: my package where new upstream version wants to remove user's config files, but doesn't provide mechanism.]
> ps used to have this problem... and it was solved by fixing the package. > I don't think there's any other way. At the least, the program should > detect when a config file is an old version, and offer to delete it. Hmm, ok, I already said I thought this was the best long-term solution. But it doesn't answer the question: what do I do now? Not upload the package until this gets resolved upstream? Could be quite a while.... -- Chris Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I have a truly elegant proof of the or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | above, but it is too long to fit into http://www.dsp.net/xtifr | this .signature file.