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Re: How to warn about need to port changes to new configuration file?



Am 18.06.2010 18:10, schrieb Michael Biebl:
On 18.06.2010 17:15, James Vega wrote:
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Michael Biebl<biebl@debian.org>  wrote:

I assume the file in question is a conffile. If you just want to move its
location, read the section "Moving a conffile" at
http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling

dpkg-maintscript-helper was introduced in dpkg 1.15.7.2 to provide a
standard implementation of actions like this.

This means though, your package needs to add a versioned depends on dpkg, which
imho is not so nice.

Much better as different solutions from different maintainers which will cause different bugs :<

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