Re: Conffiles
On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 14:50 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Do conffiles have to be regular files? Policy does not seem to be
> > explicit about this (although I'd be happy to be proven wrong on this),
> > it seems to just talk about "files".
>
> I don't believe that listing symlinks as conffiles works properly at the
> moment. See #421344. It doesn't make any sense to list a directory as a
> conffile. I think that exhausts all the non-regular files that can be in
> a Debian package.
Thanks for the quick answer. FWIW, this question comes because
checkinstall currently tags everything as a conffile, which caused dpkg
to fail when directories were tagged.
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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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