Re: RFC: some new deb package flag: "upgrade-conflicts"
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 07:02:06PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 10:16:38PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > We currently don't provide any control over dotfiles found in
> > user home directories, and we leave any conflicts as they happen.
> > I'd like some kind of scripting system.
>
> i dont think we should. shouldnt it really be the responsibility of
> upstream to provide the ability to transition from version to another?
In all other things, it's our de facto responsibility to fix up mistakes
or omissions by upstreams when they affect our users. Why not in
configuration files too?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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