Re: Debian package postupgrade script

[Robin Gustafsson <robin@rgson.se>]

Hi Tong Sun,

> I've made some breaking changes to my package,
> https://github.com/suntong/dbab/commit/3ab123e5a90f2b37021a8a1b27dc6eaf2a9b87d6#diff-087e6c3b5855f52a443f266d08a555d1R77-R78
> and would like to remove the old configure files in postupgrade step.

Judging from the commit message, it seems they should possibly be
moved rather than removed.

> Would you be so kind as show me how it could be done please? Thanks!

Have a look at dpkg-maintscript-helper. It can do either and its
man-page contains instructions for both.

Regards,
Robin