Re: keeping files from one version to the other.
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Michael Beattie wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 09:26:55PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > In the current crafty (17.13-3) these files are conffiles (look in
> > debian/conffiles or debian/crafty.conffiles), which means that they will only
> > overwrite the existing versions if they have not been modified or the user
> > requests it.
>
> and the user would be insane to request it... perhaps you should install
> them to doc/crafty/examples, and use postinst to check if they should be
> upgraded? if so, mv them to the proper location in /var.
>
> same thing is done for ppp's provider peer/chatscript files.
But that's a policy violation (13.3)
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