On Friday 20 June 2014 18:52:57 Ian Donnelly wrote: > Also, it has > become clear that the best way to continue with my GSoC project will > require patching dpkg to attempt a merge on conffiles before prompting the > user of how to deal with conflicts. I will be looking more into that next > week.
Technically, you're right. But you may have problems with the debian policy. Section "Configuration file handling" [1] mentions that "If both [conffiles] have changed their version the user is prompted about the problem and must resolve the differences themselves." People may interpret that as "dpkg must not change the content of conffile" I remember I got some push-back when I submitted the idea of managing configuration upgrade with config-model. For lcdproc, I ended moving the upgraded file from /etc/LCDd.conf to /usr/share/doc and creating /etc/LCDd.conf from scratch with cme. Before spending time patching dpkg, I strongly suggest that you check on debian-devel that the functionality brought by your patches are acceptable. HTH [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-pkg-conffiles.html _______________________________________________ Soc-coordination mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination
