Hamish Moffatt wrote: > In short, you may not automatically modify the conffile of another package, > either from your postinst or from a program called from your postinst. > [...] > It's a very friendly solution, but later dpkg will ask them about upgrading > configuration files they've never heard of. You should lobby the maintainer > of the package's conffile you want to modify to give you a mechanism > (like updated-inetd etc) to do so.
So if this update-inetd program modifies a conffile, I am not allowed to call it from my postinst? What's the reason for such a program then? This looks like the only clean solution would be to provide update-* programs and not to mark the configuration files as conffiles. But this means that update-* programs should not modify conffiles at all. -- Stefan Gybas
