On Tue 2017-03-21 21:11:43 -0400, Clint Adams wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 02:20:50PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> Currently, if a package drops a config file, the package maintainer
>> has to invoke:
>>
>> dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile $CONFFILE $PRIOR_VERSION $PKGNAME --
>> "$@"
>>
>> in the package's prinst, postinst, and postrm maintainer scripts.
>>
>> Instead, dpkg should be aware of the dropped config file and handle it
>> automatically.
>
> Are you suggesting that dpkg would diff the prior .conffiles with the in-.deb
> control file, and perform the equivalent of dpkg-maintscript-helper
> rm_conffile
> on each line that is deleted, and then make `dpkg-maintscript-helper
> rm_conffile`
> a no-op?
That sounds like a reasonable approach to me. Thanks for the
suggestion!
--dkg
