Removing obsolete conffiles on upgrade

2007-02-08 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi list, as you probably all know, conffiles from older package versions are kept on package upgrades, even if the new package version does not ship the conffile anymore. How do I best get rid of such an old/obsolete conffile? Simply delete it in preinst? Do I have to check if it was modified

Re: Removing obsolete conffiles on upgrade

2007-02-08 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fre, 09 Feb 2007, Michael Biebl wrote: I have to get rid of the old conffile somehow (I formerly had two files foo and bar. In the new package version, the content of foo has been included in bar, so I want to get rid of foo, otherwise I get clashes). Well the optimum solution is the