Hi Giuseppe,
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:29:41PM +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> Hi all,
> it seems to me that ucf cannot manage a "shared" conffile, so I really think
> the best solution would be to have a separate package that only include that
> contain file.
>
> Is there anything against this solution?
I don't know if you'll have time to work on this before the jessie freeze, but
if not, you could use the new "DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE_REFCOUNT" variable,
which was added to dpkg after the last discussion in this buglog.
It requires dpkg (>= 1.17.2). From the dpkg changelog:
dpkg/1.17.2 changelog:
* Pass the package reference count (i.e. number of present instances)
to maintainer scripts via the new variable
DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE_REFCOUNT.
Closes: #681370
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=8fe6910ed0a87f1233fae933679373866183596f
Checking this variable, and only purging when the last package is removed, is
better than removing multi-arch support.
A random example on the DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE_REFCOUNT usage (from hesiod):
https://github.com/achernya/hesiod/commit/377d59c98993a35e3d42661a504f892e394a8f70
Cheers,
Ivo
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