Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.7.2 Severity: wishlist Here's a wishlist for dpkg-maintscript-helper:
---- Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 15:17:25 +0200 From: Lionel Elie Mamane <[email protected]> To: Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:05:44AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > * The dpkg-maintscript-helper tool has been introduced in dpkg 1.15.7.2 > to help packagers deal with renaming conffiles and removing obsolete > conffiles. Check its manual page dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) for more > details on how to use it. This shell script might be extended over > time to cover other common operations. Feel free to make suggestions > while it's not too late to make changes on this new interface. Suggestion for another common operation: replacing a directory by a symlink and vice-versa, including the case of swapping the two. Keeping administrator's previous changes on that. That's rather delicate to get right, and I've seen two cases I remember where it was done wrong (in a buggy way). -- Lionel ---- -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
