Re: [PATCH] added --force-* options for conffile handling
- To: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
- Cc: Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>, Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>, wakkerma@debian.org, debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, 4950@bugs.debian.org, recipient list not shown: ;
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] added --force-* options for conffile handling
- From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:01:58 -0700
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Ben Collins wrote:
> I've actually had a better notion which involves a version tag in the conffile.
This is an interesting idea, but it assumes conffiles can have comments in
them, and it smells like a hack to me.
I think it'd be much better if the version info was put in the
DEBIAN/conffiles file. So it would have something like:
/etc/pdmenurc 1.0.0
This might be a problem if there were conffilenames with spaces in them,
though.
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see shy jo
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