"Justin Pryzby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 06:00:48PM +0100, Danai SAE-HAN wrote:
Package "freetype1-tools" owns a configuration file, namely
/etc/ttf2pk/ttfonts.map.
It is a conffile, because it is contained in the package:
That is an over simplification. It might not be a conf-file if it is
included in the package, but in a different directory then where it is found
wehn installed. (Like if the file is installed into /usr/share/*, and some
postint magic is used to update the other copy of the file without
clobbering user changes.)
It is also theoretically possible that the package may backup the existing
file, let dpkg clobber the existing file, and then do something in postinst
to ensure user changes are recreated perhaps by use of a patch like system
which will replace the new version with the users version if the changes
cannot be reconcilled. This sort of example is admittedly unlikely, but
AFAICT it is possible without violating policy.
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