Hi, On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Joey Hess wrote: > So, I wrote a patch to dpkg in 2008 to add a dpkg-conffile command, > that handles renaming and removal of conffiles. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2008/01/msg00143.html Based on that work and on http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling I prepared a shell library (conffile-hacks.sh currently, I might rename it before merge) integrated in dpkg that is meant to be used from maintainer scripts. I would be glad if people could test, review and comment. It's here: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/hertzog/dpkg.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/pu/conffile-hacks I have put some corresponding tests in pkg-tests.git (pkg-conffile-obsolete and pkg-conffile-rename): http://git.debian.org/?p=users/hertzog/pkg-tests.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/pu/conffile-hacks Attached is the script, it's self-documented but it requires a change to dpkg that is only in the branch pu/conffile-hacks (the export of the variable DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_NAME with the name of the maintainer script). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/
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