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Re: Converting dpkg-conffile in postinst



On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:33:51PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

> 
> itz> Are you missing Marc's point?  What do you advise him to do, when
> itz> his upstream changed the file format?
> 
> Matt> Inform the user about the change, and optionally provide a
> Matt> conversion script.
> 
> Does that mean you'd rather leave the package in a broken state than
> infringe on policy?

Of course not; that is ridiculous and not at all what I said.  I will not
participate in this sort of argument.

-- 
 - mdz



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