Re: Preserve files on .deb uninstall

[Josh Kelley <joshkel@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

On Ma, 07 aug 12, 11:10:41, Josh Kelley wrote:
>
> * Mark the files as conffiles - Not what I'd want in this case, because the
> files aren't configuration files and should be automatically upgraded when
> packages are upgraded, I just don't want them automatically deleted when
> packages are removed.

But conffiles are automatically upgraded if you didn't modify them
locally.

I'm rather embarrassed that I missed that.  That should work well then.  Thank you for your help.

-- 
Josh Kelley