Hi there! First of all, thank to both Steve and James for the help.
Then, as this was cross-posted to the pkg-fso-maint mailing list, I'll be more detailed than necessary, please skip what you don't care about. On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:31:45 +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:13:18PM -0400, James Vega wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 07:32:48PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >> > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:00:34AM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: >> > > This mail originates from the discussion at [1]: simply, I need to move >> > > an /etc file (/etc/frameworkd.conf) from one package (fso-frameworkd) to >> > > another one (fso-config-gta02). [...] >> > Use Replaces:, just as for other files that move between packages. >> >> As I understand it, you should also remove the conffile[0] from the >> original package according. > > That's part of "just as for other files that move between packages", yes. :) > Replaces: is for /moving/ files between packages; I think I've now understood: I thought that the burden was for the new package now carrying the config files, but it's exactly the contrary. I implemented the solution proposed in the Debian wiki (thanks again to James) and it works [1]. Two questions remain: 1) would be a good idea to provide a debhelper script to manage config files, i.e. to automatically insert the shell functions at [0] at build time? Something like dh_conffile_[re]move. 2) am I correct if I say that the reason behind the .dpkg-bak suffix is because using the .dpkg-old is a "nonsense", since what we backup is not really an "old" version? > if the file is supposed to be in both packages, that needs to be a > Conflicts:. Only the fso-config-* packages will provide the conffile. Now that I think of it this means that they should Conflicts: each other, thus each of them will provide the fso-config virtual package (Policy ยง7.6.2 [2]): Conflicts: fso-config Replaces: fso-config Provides: fso-config This has been implemented in commit [3], but ATM we decide that fso-frameworkd should only Recommends: fso-config [4]. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca Footnotes: >> [0] - http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-fso/fso-frameworkd.git;a=commitdiff;h=59f313926b62a683230d4b4a4de5128248648918 [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s7.6.2 [3] http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-fso/openmoko-files.git;a=commitdiff;h=3237ac83fc91d8dccfad72471de312bcc1c809b4 [4] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fso-maint/2008-October/000145.html
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