On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:54:08PM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> Have you noticed you're advocating creating dynamic users in just about
> every machine that ever needs to build a certain package JUST because you
> dislike dpkg-statoverride usage in postinst? It looks like you're trying to
> address a problem the wrong way, to me.
>
> Maybe MUST guidelines that force the correct usage of dpkg-override, and a
> severe warning that such stuff should be done in preinst if at all possible
> would be a better solution to the problem.
Yes, when I started this thread, I hadn't thought of this case. But
I've now become convinced of the need to have a distinction between
maintainer statoverrides, for cases like this, and local
statoverrides, which take precedence.
Wichert, is this possible?
Julian
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