> Now, as a maintainer, how I am supposed to add a hack to the list? > Surely not editing a conffile from other package in postinst, as that > is not permitted by the Debian Policy. Is there any other way to do > this?
Policy aside, that is how you do it. I don't see another way. If ~user/.xscreensaver lists hacks A, B and C, and you want them to also see D, you need to put D in the system-wide /.../app-defaults/XScreenSaver file. I guess you could modify both packages to install their version as XScreenSaver-pkgname and then have postinst for both packages treat the app-defaults file as a generated file from whatever wild carded files it finds. Maybe that would work as a loophole for whatever the policy is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
