On Mon, 02 Mar 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:02:11PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > <winge> > > Insert the typical winge here about dpkg conffile renaming code > > being deployed via cut-n-paste from a wiki page instead of any > > of our better technologies, such as a utility, with a man page, > > in a single package. > > </winge> > > It would of course have to be in an Essential: yes package, since conffile > renaming has to be handled in the package preinst and we wouldn't want > conffile handling to involve lots of extra Pre-Depends. dpkg itself is the > most likely package to carry this - wishlist bug on dpkg warranted?
It's already there: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514316 I would happily include such a file, though it probably needs some thought on the API before we commit to support it for eternity. Feel free to help and make a proposal/patch. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
