Re: Converting dpkg-conffile in postinst
On 26 Oct 2002 13:37:20 +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe@orcus.priv.at>
wrote:
>Marc Haber <mh+debian-mentors@zugschlus.de> writes:
>> >Inform the user about the change, and optionally provide a conversion
>> >script.
>>
>> OK. So I will be shipping a package that will break existing and
>> working setups, while handling this automatically is perfectly
>> possible.
>
>What about upgrading "inform the user" into "ask the user whether you
>should convert the file, or leave it (broken) as is"?
That isn't allowed by policy. Even if I ask the user, policy still
explicitly forbids my maintainer scripts to mess with the
dpkg-conffiles. And it has technical reasons for doing so, I have to
add after re-reading policy.
Greetings
Marc
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