Re: we need more variation for conffiles

[Martin Waitz <tali@stud.uni-erlangen.de>]

hi,

an other aproach would be to use diff3 on the current
conffile, conffile.dpkg-new and the new file from
the archive to patch it.

this would allow for automated changes of conffiles,
even if the user has changed it!
(assumed the changes in package and by user are not
conflicting)

if this failes, dpkg could offer the prompt that is
currently used.

cvs does a similar job to merge changes made by
different peoples. why not adopt this mechanism for
conffiles?
would be great! :)

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