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Re: Removing self-managed conffiles?



On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 10:28:41PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> You will have to test with both sarge and etch dpkg (until after etch
> releases).  Colin Watson recently wrote [0] about one of the ssh bugs
> and how this was complicated for him.
> 
> You have to include the logic in the preinst, since the prerm is for the old
> package, since the postinst happens after the conffile prompts, and since the
> postrm happens post rm...

This sounds like a horrible mess and a gazillion ways to do things
wrong. Is there a reference package that does things completely right?

Greetings
Marc

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