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Re: dpkg-statoverride question



Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Unless I've just lost my sanity it was also designed to be run before
> the preinst, so the preinst can take a question from the debconf
> database and add the statoverride before a package is unpacked.

Abslutely: if you pre-depend on debconf, and your preinst sources the
debconf confmodule, the config script is guaranteed to be run before the
preinst. Otherwise, may or may not be. That's the right way to do it.

-- 
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