Hi,
I have one point to add to this. Handling files not mentioned
in the *.list file was one way of several packages to handle/edit a
common file, for example, if a bunch of packages need /etc/foo to
exist, and foo can contain the word bar or bah, then any package, in
the postinst, finding that /etc/foo did not exist, can question the
user and create the file (the other packages then accept it).
I think this may be a useful thing to do. I do not think that
extrafiles should abrogate this functionality; so I want to add a
rider that files listed in extrafiles may have more than one owner.
There fore dpkg --listfiles may return more than one hit.
manoj
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