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Re: Protecting user changes in developer scripts handled files



>>"Adam" == Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes:

 Adam> On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
 >> Since it is too late to modify dpkg (freeze), I am going to
 >> package this script up, and make my smacsen packages depend on the
 >> resulting package, and start preserving user changes in emacsen
 >> site-start.d files.

 Adam> If you use this script in your preinst, then you must
 Adam> pre-depend.  However, I don't think preinst use is nescessary,
 Adam> so only a depends is needed.

	In normal usage (as the example in the USAGE section of the
 man page suggests), the script shall do its work in the postinst, and
 hence no pre-depends are needed.

	manoj
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