[Michael Biebl] > Why do you think, debhelper is not the correct place to handle this? > Imho it would be fairly easy to write a debhelper command for this. > Another way would be, to make dpkg smarter about such cases. As you > want to write a special utility for this, how would you hook this up > into the install/upgrade process? If you have to edit maintainer > scripts again, you haven't gained a lot imho.
What API should be provided? I assume the script name and the version it was removed would be enough? Something like 'dh_obsolete /etc/init/oldfile 1.0.0-1', perhaps? One entry per file? Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]