Thomas Hood writes ("Re: conffile purging and maintainer scripts"):
> If a file /etc/foo was formerly a conffile of the package but no
> longer is so then /etc/foo should be dealt with in the preinst or
> postinst.Regrettably this is currently true. I think this is a bug in dpkg and I think I know how to fix it. I'll see what I can do about it in a more appropriate venue than debian-devel :-). > Roger Leigh wrote: > > 1) sarge -> etch upgrades > > ------------------------- > > > > In order to handle upgrades from sarge correctly, maintainers will > > still have to manually remove conffiles in their maintainer scripts > > until at least etch+1 by my reckoning. Is this correct? Some of the folklore recipies I've seen for doing this are fundamentally broken. They look in /var/lib/dpkg/status (which may or may not contain the right information) and they use filenames like *.dpkg-tmp which are reserved for the use of dpkg. I'm working on grepping archives for affected packages. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
