Re: packages modifying files owned by other packages?

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Subject: Re: packages modifying files owned by other packages?
From: Andreas Bombe <andreas@bombe.modem.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:34:52 +0200
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On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 02:20:33AM +0200, David Spreen wrote:
> Hey there, 
> I maintain the lids packages for the debian distribution and I am working on
> a lids-configurationtool so this becomes more easy to manage for users.
> What I want to know is, is it allowed to have a configtool, which modifies
> initscripts and configfiles owned by other packages?

This sounds ugly and will probably make problems.  I don't think policy
is in favor of that either (for config files, I mean).

Anyway, look at dpkg-divert.

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Andreas E. Bombe <andreas.bombe@munich.netsurf.de>    DSA key 0x04880A44

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