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Re: Packages rename and conffiles



On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:28:34AM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Steve Langasek writes ("Re: Packages rename and conffiles"):
> > What position do you think we should take on this issue?  If there's no
> > known solution that avoids conffile prompts with both the old and new
> > versions, and given that there's no good systematic way to arrange for one
> > version of dpkg or the other to be installed at the time of upgrade,
> > perhaps it's best to favor the new dpkg?
> 
> The ideal solution would be a general arrangement that ensured that
> upgrades from release A to B were always done with the package
> management system from B (backported, presumably).

So are you planning to provide such a backport ? Without it we will have
to investigate others solutions. 

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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