Re: conffile renaming and other sh snippets for maintainer scripts

2009-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 08:01:42PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: >> It would of course have to be in an Essential: yes package, since >> conffile renaming has to be handled in the package preinst and we >> wouldn't want conffile handling to involve lots of extra Pre-De

conffile renaming and other sh snippets for maintainer scripts

2009-03-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 08:01:42PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > It would of course have to be in an Essential: yes package, since conffile > renaming has to be handled in the package preinst and we wouldn't want > conffile handling to involve lots of extra Pre-Depends. dpkg itself is the > most