Re: [PATCH 5/7] Implement 'p' option for diffing dist conffiles during conflict resolution

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

sean finney wrote:

> Yeah I don't think we got to the point where we were considering
> issues like that.  I'd guess that the menu should be made more flexible
> so that if the required conffiledb data isn't there for any reason that
> it falls back to the old behavior/options.

Yep, agreed.  A heuristic like "if the conffiledb directory is
missing, don't present the related choices" would be sane enough.