On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 02:50 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 19:23:40 +1100, Robert Collins > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 23:04 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > >> Fortunately, all of this is only necessary for upgrades from sarge > >> to etch, and once we can expect everyone to have etch's dpkg > >> installed we can move conffiles between packages more or less like > >> any other files. > > > is it possible/useful to generate a dh_ command to facilitate this? > > Rather than everyone needing to end up encoding the same logic with > > minute variations ? > > How often do you think this shall be needed in this release > cycle? Writing a general purpose dh_tool, and getting it tested, is > not a simple task (though of course, if you feel the need to scratch > that itch, far be it for me to stop you).
Its not just this release cycle though: In any release there are at least two versions of dpkg to consider w.r.t. moving conf-files around. So I wasn't proposing that a specific tool be written urgently, but rather that we consider having one as a standard, and its behaviour can be adjusted to handle the current previous-release, current-release pairing of dpkg correctly to facilitate such moves. -Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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