On November 16, 2015 9:38:23 AM PST, Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> wrote:
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