Re: Two postinsts that generate the same file - who owns it?

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Subject: Re: Two postinsts that generate the same file - who owns it?
From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:22:47 +0200
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Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> schrieb:

> On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
>> The main questions: Since it is not possible to determine which postinst
>> has generated the preprocessed data file, who "owns" it?  That is, when
>
> Whichever package(s) uses the 'complied' dataset, IMHO.

I would be very surprised if I purged one of the data packages, but
still can use it's data. Why can't both sides remove "their" binary data
file when they are removed, just as both try to create it?

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie

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