Re: problems with 3.0 format

2010-03-31 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Peter Krefting [100330 21:35]: >> Not having that information also means that when you want to look for >> what was changed for some bugfix, one has to look at the whole history >> and collect the initial change and all the adoptions to newer upstream >> versions. > > That's the entire point of

Re: Bug#574443: debhelper: New helper proposal: dh_oldconffiles (or similar name)

2010-03-31 Thread Joey Hess
Didier Raboud wrote: > while updating one of my packages (which again dropped a conffile), I had to > modify its preinst, according to http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling . > > This works but is IMHO suboptimal: the code referenced on the wiki has to be > hand copied in each and every pack