On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:08:22AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > In 2001, we only had dpkg's conffile handling, and we couldn't do any > editing of the config file in postinst if we shipped it in place in > the deb. Now ucf exists, so it's probably a good idea to revisit the > maintainer scripts.
otoh, that would pull in ucf on all systems. We'd need to build some scaffolding for graceful operation if ucf is present so that we can live with a Recommends: ucf or Suggests: ucf. Greetings Marc
