Re: Moving conffiles between packages, redux
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 07:23:40PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 23:04 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > [debian-release: Read this if you care about the details. The executive
> > summary is to note that openssh 1:4.3p2-8 corrects an RC bug and should
> > be hinted into testing if its five days expire without any new RC bugs;
> > also that all other packages that have had to deal with moving conffiles
> > between packages may be affected by a similar problem depending on
> > whether they're upgraded with sarge's dpkg or etch's dpkg, and need to
> > be reviewed and corrected before release.]
> ...
> > Fortunately, all of this is only necessary for upgrades from sarge to
> > etch, and once we can expect everyone to have etch's dpkg installed we
> > can move conffiles between packages more or less like any other files.
>
> is it possible/useful to generate a dh_ command to facilitate this?
> Rather than everyone needing to end up encoding the same logic with
> minute variations ?
I think given that it's only for sarge to etch, and there are only
something like half a dozen packages affected, probably not ...
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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