On Mon, 21 May 2012, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > I'd probably > * collect md5sums of all previous versions of the "defaults" (going back > to lenny, eventually even earlier as this is an essential package and we > don't want to annoy people with long grown systems ... don't forget > point releases (or even historic versions in sid/testing) that might > have changed the defaults
But checking md5sums should be dpkg job, that's precisely what the conffile mechanism is for. If the job of dpkg has to be duplicated in preinst and postinst, there is something fundamentally wrong here. Sorry, I'm going to revert this change for now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
