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converting conffile to dpkg-conffile and keeping piuparts happy



Hi,

another late night stupid question from me.

In ferm, /etc/default/ferm used to be managed in postinst. I would like to convert that to a dpkg-conffile. I have therefore removed the code handling the conffile from postinst and the other maintainer scripts and am delivering the file via the normal way as package member file.

The first version of the package with /etc/default/ferm being a dpkg-conffile is in experimental due to the freeze.

When I change something in /etc/default/ferm, this triggers a dpkg-conffile prompt during installation. This, in turn, makes piuparts unhappy when it tries to update the package version that is currently in unstable (and will stay there until the release) to the new version.

How can I change my new dpkg-conffile and keep piuparts happy at the same time?

Greetings
Marc

P.S.: I wouldn't have that problem if I moved the conffile to ucf, right?

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