Alexander Wirt wrote: > You can also rewrite the patch without dpkg-maintscript-helper, I did this > before. But I am not yet sure if this is a good idea, I have to check first > if the files are really compatible. > > Since squeeze isn't released and 8.6.3 is not for squeeze we have a little > bit time, maybe I'll ask Stuart what he thinks.
Thanks, this summary makes sense to me. Since docbook.conf and docbook45.conf are not byte-for-byte identical, if docbook.conf is changed then dpkg would ask the user to intervene. The scenario to fear: once Sean Finney's nice work is integrated into dpkg, dpkg will remember the full text instead of just the md5sum of the old conffile and one of the options in that prompt would be to run a 3-way merge (as if using ucf). At that point one needs to be careful lest the admin accept a syntactically clean but semantically bogus resolution. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
