martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > The problem I have is the package upgrade. dh_installdeb (which > I want to keep using) flags *all* files in /etc as conffiles and > provide no means to exclude patterns. Thus, in order to remove the > file from dpkg's custody, I have to actually *not* install it in the > new package. This causes the upgrade to delete the configuration > file, which is surely not what we want.
Have you tested this? I think that the file will not be deleted, because upon upgrade, the old package is only removed, not purged. Therefore all conffiles stay in /etc. If you happen to have tetex-base installed in sid or sarge and have continuously updated since woody, you'll find lots of useless *.map files in /etc/texmf/dvips which are no longer in our *deb. You'll also find /usr/share/tetex-base/remove-oldmaps which allows local administrators to remove them. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
