also sprach George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net> [2006.07.04.2035 +0200]:
> However I noticed that you ship a configuration file with your package and I
> guess you want your users to be able to preserve their own configurations
> done to that file on upgrades (that is also what debian policy stipulates for
> configuration files under /etc). So, you can use dpkg conffiles mechanism[1]
If he installs the file into /etc and uses debhelper >=3 (which
I hope), then the file will be automatically under dpkg conffiles
control.
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