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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