This one time, at band camp, Michael Biebl said: > Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > >[Michael Biebl] > >>Why do you think, debhelper is not the correct place to handle this? > >>Imho it would be fairly easy to write a debhelper command for this. > >>Another way would be, to make dpkg smarter about such cases. As you > >>want to write a special utility for this, how would you hook this up > >>into the install/upgrade process? If you have to edit maintainer > >>scripts again, you haven't gained a lot imho. > > > >What API should be provided? I assume the script name and the version > >it was removed would be enough? > > > >Something like 'dh_obsolete /etc/init/oldfile 1.0.0-1', perhaps? One > >entry per file? > > Something like this, yeah. And optionally a third parameter if a > conffile has been moved. > dh_obsolete /etc/bar.conf 1.0.0.-1 /etc/bar/bar.conf > > dh_obsolete sounds a bit weird in that case, so suggestions for better > names are welcome. My concern with this is that it can be important to have the files moved in a particular order relative to other things happening in your preinst, and a single #DEBHELPER# token might not be flexible. I'm sure joeyh will come up with something simple, elegant, flexible and working (on the first try), but I thought it worth mentioning. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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