Re: piuparts-MBF: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user
peter green wrote:
>> So, what do you suggest for this? Of course, this file _is_ a conffile
>> (i.e. should never be automatically overwritten, so just moving it
>> over to /var/lib is not just compiling with a different path set). If
>> I don't automatically upgrade the file, users will end up with a
>> confused daemon unable and unwilling to move on. How should I proceed
>> with this?
>
> My understanding is in this situation the correct soloution is not to
> ship the file in the package at all and then have the maintainer scripts
> create/edit it on install/upgrade.
ucf can be a great help for this.
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