On Feb 09, 2011, at 07:14 PM, sean finney wrote: >hi barry, > >On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 09:22:16AM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> Has anybody thought about porting this nice behavior to Debian/Ubuntu? > >the problem is that dpkg does not keep track of the original "pristine" >version of the conffile, so there's no 3rd version for the 3 way merge. > >some time ago i brought this up on dpkg-dev and even provided patches >providing exactly this feature, but the dpkg maintainer didn't really >seem interested.
Hi Sean, thanks for the info. That's too bad because I think it would be really useful. I'll make due with the etckeeper workaround. Are your patches still available? I'd love to take a look just for kicks. Cheers, -Barry
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