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Re: bookworm upgrade report: boring



* On 2023 14 Jun 03:24 -0500, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2023-06-13 13:41:23 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > I have always chickened out on that option.  Looking at the ucf man page
> > and the description of the three-way merge it looks like the user would
> > have a yes or no option but no edit option.
> 
> One can always run an editor from a shell.

Sure, but one has to carefully note the available file names in case one
is a temp file as the ucf man page discusses.  I don't know enough about
dpkg's handling of such files to know if the correct one will be edited.
Much easier for the package manager/debconf to be extended to handle
this step.

- Nate

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