On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Marc Haber wrote: > I am aware of that. That's one of my reasons for advocating giving the > needed love to ucf and to deprecate dpkg's conffile functions in favor > of ucf. A extended / enhanced ucf can replace dpkg with a lot less > work than would be necessary to bring dpkg's conffile handling into > the 2020ies decade.
I note that merging ucf into dpkg is on the dpkg roadmap: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/RoadMap -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise