Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> writes:
>> Specificaly conffiles will pose a problem here I think. The conffile
>> will belong to multiple packages then causing the first problem for
>> dpkg. Then on conffile changes the change will happen multiple
>> times, once per architecture and the changes made by the first arch
>> upgraded will look like the user made changes to the conffile in
>> other archs. Overall a big mess.
>
> Is it really how it's implement in dpkg? I seriously doubt it.
>
> --
> Jakub Wilk
I'm not sure what has been done meanwhile in dpkg to handle this. But
initially this would have been the behaviour in dpkg.
Maybe now dpkg tracks conffiles for all archs of a package as a group
and handles things correctly on it own.
MfG
Goswin
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