Backups in maintainer scripts

[Diogo Kollross <diogok_br@yahoo.com.br>]

I'm replacing files in the maintainer script of a
package, but I would like to maintain backups of these
files. Is there any good practice about that (eg: like
renaming the old file to filename~ or filename.old)?

I would also like to know if dpkg makes any backups
when installing packages, and if I can rely on them
being present when removing a package.

Thanks,

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Diogo Kollross



	
	
		
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