Re: Bug#193439: emacsen-common: debian-emacs-policy and package setup in conffile

[Daniel Schepler <schepler@math.berkeley.edu>]

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:

> 	Why not just write correct startup files, that know when the
>  package is gone? And which preserve user changes? It isnot as if
>  there are not examples of packages that do the right thing.

I've just filed a bug against dh-make based on this discussion, to
request that its template be fixed.  Hopefully this will mean that
most new packages will incorporate the fix.

Now to fix my tads2-mode package.  Not that I think anybody other than
me actually uses it...
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