Re: conffiles problem

[cjwatson@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> wrote:
>I was taught by a Japanese developer that man debhelper said
>
>       V3  This is the reccommended mode of operation.  Setting
>           DH_COMPAT=3 does everything V2 does, plus:
>
>           -       Debhelper config files support globbing via *
>                   and ?, when appropriate. To turn this off and
>                   use those characters raw, just prefix with a
>                   backslash.
>
>           -       dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst and postrm
>                   scripts call ldconfig.
>
>           -       Every file in etc/ is automatically flagged as
>                   a conffile by dh_installdeb.
>
>I don't know if it can be supressed with some options.
>I hope this is what you asked.

Specifically, if you use DH_COMPAT=3 *and* have a debian/conffiles
mentioning files in /etc, you'll end up with doubled entries.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]