Bug#48717: dpkg: could be more useful wrt conffile diffs
Jason Gunthorpe writes:
> > When possible (ie. conffile.dpkg-dist exists), I find that 2 diffs,
> > one between conffile.dpkg-dist and conffile, and the other between
>
> I think what would ultimately be more usefull is a 3 way diff and the
> option to patch up to the new version. The diff3 program is commonly used
> for such things.
Yes, but I'd expect more people to be familiar with diff ouput than
with diff3 output :(
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