Re: Converting dpkg-conffile in postinst
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 22:04:47 -0400, Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 04:05:40PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>> Are you missing Marc's point? What do you advise him to do, when his
>> upstream changed the file format?
>
>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.
So be it.
Greetings
Marc
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