Re: design issues in debian packages

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:

> >>>>> "Adam" == Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes:
> 
>     Adam> The way I am solving this for jboss, is to have a .foo to
>     Adam> match each foo in a .d, where .foo is executable, and this
>     Adam> .foo is what checks to see if the configuration fragment(as
>     Adam> I call them) should be used.  My goal is to make this script
>     Adam> generic(so far, it is), and have it be included into
>     Adam> debianutils.  This script also handles the case of .rpm-save
>     Adam> and .dpkg-new type files, and skips over them.
> 
> I was thinking of the ideal long term solution:
> 
> For each file in *.d/$file, package $file must be installed, otherwise
> it will get ignored.

Except for local files whose prefix is "local." (for example).

Phil.