On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:28:34 -0400 (EDT) Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU> wrote: > Hi Christian, > > Debathena developed a CDBS extension module called config-package-dev > that lets you do this in a mostly-sane manner for packaged files > (either regular files or conffiles, but not generated files). The > purpose of config-package-dev is to let us ship a package that via > dpkg-divert replaces a file in another package, so that we don't have > to rebuild the other package, take on responsibility for watching for > security updates, etc., and can just point users at the main Debian > repository for it. That sounds really neat. > http://debathena.mit.edu/config-package-dev > [...] I'm > also working on a Debhelper based reweite in my spare time since DH 7 > got us much of what we originally wanted from CDBS, but I'm not sure > how quickly this will be done. I can't offer to help write you port it, but if I can help in testing your DH7(and over?) version at some point let me know :) thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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