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



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

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

According to the tcsh_6.06-5.diff.gz in Incoming on master, you wrote

	+#      install -c -o root -g root -m 0644 debian/conffiles \
	+#                      debian/tmp/DEBIAN/conffiles                 

which cannot work because it's commented. 

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Dirk Eddelb"uttel                             http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

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