Re: Finger daemons in Debian should use a virtual package
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 07:38:09PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Radovan Garabik <garabik@atlas13.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk> wrote:
> >
> > It would not be better. I had to add the Conflict line because otherwise
> > you would install efingerd over (e.g.) cfinger, and either it would
> > remove cfinger from /etc/inetd.conf, and when you removed cfinger it
> > happily deleted efingerd entry, or it could leave cfinger entry alone, and
> > you have to modify it manually - not good.
>
> That just means efingerd's postinst is broken.
no, it's cfingerd that it broken - it happily removes entries, not noticing
if they were made by cfingerd or anything else (at least did when I was
packaging efingerd, a long time ago)
Or is this preferrable behaviour?
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