On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:49:03PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > >It's your package. One thing you could do when you start working on it is > > >to remove the conflict between xabacus and xmabacus - there are better > > >solutions in Debian when two packages share the same file. > > > > > >cu > > >Adrian > > > > I'm just looking for the 'better solutions' he mentions but still clueless. > > Any > > hint ? > > One possibility would be to not use a conffile, but generate the > conffile in your postinst if it does not exist. This still leaves open > the question about how you figure out it's safe to remove the conffile. > The packages would each have to remove it on purge iff the other package > was already purged.
It seems the best solution indeed. Is there a way to know if a package has been purged ? dpkg --test-purge ? -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
