Re: Caught in the act
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 02:49:57PM +0100, Ingo Saitz wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 12:15:12AM +0100, Martin Albert wrote:
> > -- Would that be 'legal' anyway? Modifiying installed files of one pkg
> > by the scripts of another? (They're closely related however and chances
> > are good that after all this weird stuff, the next pkg to be removed
> > would be the manipulated -dev anyway).
>
> If both packages agree on a policy to do this, this should be no
> problem (see e.g. apache, emacs, perl,...). And if you are the
> maintainer of both packages you even don't need to write that
> policy down. Just make sure it works as expected.
BUT if they are conffiles then you MAY NOT DO THIS EVER!!
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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