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Re: Finding out in postinst whether some other package is configured



also sprach Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> [2005.10.11.1928 +0200]:
> is there an established way to find out in the postinst script of a
> package whether an other package (e.g. one which we Recommend or
> Suggest) is configured?  Testing for file contents can only tell whether
> it is unpacked, but that might not be enough.

Assuming it provides a conffile, can you check for $FILE.dpkg-new ?

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