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Re: Bug#4746: tcsh overwrites /etc/csh.{login,cshrc,logout}



On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, J.H.M.Dassen wrote:

> Package: tcsh
> Version: 6.06-4
> 
> The new tcsh package does not have /etc/csh.{login,cshrc,logout} as
> conffiles anymore, and overwrites these files upon install, causing
> local configuration to be lost.
> 
> Please fix this ASAP and consider removing 6.06-4 from the archive.

Couldn't fix it, worked it around.  The new version is 6.06-5 in master's
Incoming.  I don't know why I couldn't fix it.  I installed
debian/conffiles in debian/tmp/DEBIAN, but it didn't help.  Maybe a bug in
dpkg?  Anyway, my workaround was that I added things into preinst and
postinst scripts.

Vadik.

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