retitle 595112 dpkg-maintscript-helper: new helper for moving a conffile between packages thanks
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Josh Triplett wrote: > Moving a conffile from one package to another seems to prove even more > difficult than renaming it or removing it. Please consider providing > support for this case in dpkg-maintscript-helper. What kind of problems are you referring to? Michael Biebl reported in the thread at http://lists.debian.org/4f31c323.9090...@debian.org that the difficulty was to handle the case where the target package has no guaranty to be installed. In that case, we might keep the old conffile around when we don't really want. In http://lists.debian.org/20120209095814.ga3...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com I suggested to create a rm_conffile_if_owner helper function to deal with this case. Would this fit your needs too? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Get the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
