Re: Renaming config files

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Ivan Jager <aij+debian@mrph.org> writes:

> What's the proper way to deal with renaming configuration files?
> I'm working on a new version of hibernate, and right now it
> simply adds the new config file and leaves the old one lying
> around, which is less than ideal.

Is it conceptually the same config file at a newer version? Or is it
conceptually a distinct file?

What are the reasons the user might want the existing file to remain
after upgrade, versus the reasons another user might want that file to
go away after upgrade?

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Ben Finney