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Re: Protecting user changes in developer scripts handled files



>>"Wichert" == Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> writes:

 Wichert> More specifically, we're thinking of moving the meat of the conffile
 Wichert> handling out of dpkg into a seperate tool and make dpkg use that.
 Wichert> That would make it useable for others as well, and make it easier
 Wichert> to put another frontend (like debconf) on it.

	The proposed script has more functionality than dpkg offers
 when moving a file to conffile status -- not blowing away user
 changes in the file that is to become a conffile, allowing the
 maintainer to provide historical md5sum data to minimize confusing
 questions on the transition upgrade.

	Are you planning on similarly enhancing the dpkg code when
 you split it out?

	manoj
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