Re: Bug#4746: tcsh overwrites /etc/csh.{login,cshrc,logout}
On Sun, 13 Oct 1996 Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca wrote:
>
> 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.
I did. It worked in some of them, but didn't in others. Now I'm trying
to upgrade dpkg and test it again.
Vadik.
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