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 -- blog: http://twerner.blogspot.com/ homepage: http://www.twerner42.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]