On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 01:02:22PM -0600, Thomas Vaughan wrote: > I know that it's more work, but, in the spirit of the man page---and > with a view toward the highest standard of quality---you might consider > implementing in the postinst script the right Bourne shell code to > implement the following pseudocode, which would take the place of the > line that you inserted, which always forces removal of old links: > > if upgrading from odccm version < 0.11-3 > if links are as the old package installed them > force removal of old links > else if links are not as odccm-0.11-3 would install them > complain about potentially bad local modification of links > suggest at least temporary manual removal of links > administrator might replace his links after installation if need be > exit with error from postinst > endif > endif
I've done better. I migrated from CDBS to plain debhelper so the postinst script can simply be: http://git.jonnylamb.com/?p=packaging/odccm.git;a=blob;f=debian/postinst;h=b838d41f941e78c I'll get this updated soon. Thanks, -- Jonny Lamb, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jonnylamb.com GPG: 0x2E039402
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