also sprach Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> [2006.08.30.2023 +0200]:
> First question to the developers, what are you using for deploying
> configuration on your servers?
cfengine and puppet
> * The first thing that comes to mind is the ability to divert
> conffiles. This could help a lot to build things around existing
> packages. Do you think this is realistic? Can this be done with
> the current conffile architecture in dpkg?
no, you will lose data if you try. Arguably this should be fixed.
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