On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:29:48 +0800, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: >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
I advocate doing things exactly the other way roud. Give package maintainers the power! Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834