Am 09.06.2018 um 14:28 schrieb Reiner Herrmann: > On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 02:16:14PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Why would the timidity package remove a conffile that belongs to another >> package? That doesn't make sense to me. > > Because the conffile removed from package A could be installed / taken > over by package B. As far as I understood it, it can be marked in this > way to belong to package B. If it would just remove the file from A, > the user's modifications would be lost. > And testing upgrades with (un)modified files suggests that it works like > this.
No, that's not what $PACKAGE in dpkg-maintscript-helper is used for. You can't "mark" a conffile as belonging to another package this way. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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