Hi, Shai Berger <shai@platonix.com> (15/12/2009): > […] and I don't want to modify the files under /usr -- which I must > modify again, manually, with every upgrade. you probably could use dpkg-divert to have your modified file preserved during upgrades? > I note bug #497341 and its upstream offshoot, > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20743 > > If I read that bug correctly, upstream's attitude towards custom > layouts is somewhere between "no" and "it's downstream's > business". I think if one is skilled enough to modify this file to support a custom layout, one should be expected to deal with such a modified file through usual dpkg tools. I'm not sure we want or need to support those things in a specific manner. Mraw, KiBi.
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