On 9/30/07, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> broke my perfectly functioning system and forced me to read your
> postinst script[1] and pull powerbtn files out of acpid-cruft.tar.gz.

Everything is explained in NEWS.Debian.

> | You should check in preinst, by comparing the md5sums of the
> | installed file and the one recorded in /var/lib/dpkg/info, if the file
> | has been modified.

That is not an exported API of dpkg, just an undocumented
implementation detail. I do not want to rely on that. But you can
reassign the bug to dpkg if you think it is worth fixing.


Cheers,
Torsten


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