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Re: How to use remove-on-upgrade to remove a configuration file?



Ludovic Rousseau:
> Hello Niels,
> 
> Le 08/08/2021 à 09:09, Niels Thykier a écrit :
>> Ludovic Rousseau:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Hi Ludovic,
>>
>> You cannot use that feature yet as it would break during upgrade. The
>> dpkg version in stable does not support the feature.  Which is also why
>> there is no debhelper feature to support it yet.
> 
> OK. I was searching for something that does not (yet) exist :-)
> 
> My plan was to upload the package in Bullseye +1 so after the (soon)
> release of Bullseye.
> Bullseye will then be the new stable and will have dpkg 1.20.9. So that
> should work. No?
> 
> Thanks
> 

>From an upgrade/low-level tech perspective, yes, it would work.

>From an "how do I use this feature" perspective, I would recommend that
you/people wait until relevant wiring has been added to debhelper.

~Niels


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