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



  Vadik>  Yeah, it didn't work, so I wrote a workaround in preinst and
  Vadik> postinst scrpits (i think you may extract it with something like
  Vadik> dpkg-deb -e tcsh_6.06-5_i386.deb).

That is *not* the right way to deal with it. What you introduce is just
another problem. Please consider fixing it. Ian did not write the policy &
programmers manuals to us maintainers circumvent them.

This must be something simple. Just take the sources of another packages
which uses conffiles and compare them closely to what you are doing.

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

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