On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 04:23:30PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > The old passwd files should be backed up into *.dpkg-old to be > consistent with other packages. One example of why it is important to > be consistent, although it might not be explicitly mentioned in the > Debian Policy Manual (although it should be), is this: After updates, > I do a "find / -name *.dpkg-*" to see which configuration files have > been modified. My sanity check would miss your *.org files, which in > the case of the password files, could have tragic consequences.
dpkg maintainers: is there any kind of namespace policy on *.dpkg-* (i.e. is it reserved for conffiles)? It would seem useful if other packages could use that pattern, since various tools special-case it, but I thought I'd check. > Also, the following message is unnecessarily verbose: [...] My development version reduces the verbosity a bit. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
