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



On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 18:10:07 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:

> 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.
> 
Make that pre-depends, since you need it in preinst iirc.

Cheers,
Julien

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