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Re: Ideas to improve dpkg/ucf with hooks



On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:29:48 +0800, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Marc Haber wrote:
>> I am aware of that. That's one of my reasons for advocating giving the
>> needed love to ucf and to deprecate dpkg's conffile functions in favor
>> of ucf. A extended / enhanced ucf can replace dpkg with a lot less
>> work than would be necessary to bring dpkg's conffile handling into
>> the 2020ies decade.
>
>I note that merging ucf into dpkg is on the dpkg roadmap:
>
>https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/RoadMap

I advocate doing things exactly the other way roud. Give package
maintainers the power!

Greetings
Marc
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