what to do with binary conffiles ?

[Eric Van Buggenhaut <ericvb@debian.org>]

Hi everyone,

I'm the maintainer of crafty, a chess engine (http://packages.debian.org/crafty).

When you install crafty for the first time, it installed compiled
opening books in /var/lib/crafty. Then, as it plays against you, it
'learns' from the games and add the new moves to the opening books
that live in /var/lib/crafty.

Because You don't want your 'updated' opening books to be replaced by
crafty's default ones when you install a new version of the package,
these opening books are marked as conffiles.

Now, recently, bugs have been filed against the package,  complaining
about conffiles being binaries:

http://bugs.debian.org/154798
http://bugs.debian.org/154502

So, is it a problem to have conffiles being binary ? Do you have any
idea about how I could fix this (if it actually has to be fixed)?

Please CC me on reply.

Thanks.

-- 
Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT
Eric.VanBuggenhaut@AdValvas.be


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