tony mancill wrote: > preinst checks to see if it was called with either "install <oldversion>" > or "upgrade <oldversion>", which case it will copy whatever the user had > for these conffiles into the new locations (and then remove the old > conffiles? Or let dpkg handle this?)
I've done this a couple of times, but I can never remember exactly what to do. Anyhow, I think this is the right solution, and that you do have to delete the old conffiles. I don't think dpkg automatically removes them. -- see shy jo
