Re: Clearing the conffile status of a file

2017-07-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Sven Joachim: > On 2017-07-12 09:56 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> I've got a request to remove the conffile status of a file after it is >> no longer a conffile. dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile does not >> seem to do this, based on the documentation and the source code. >> >> Is there a

Re: Clearing the conffile status of a file

2017-07-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-07-12 09:56 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > I've got a request to remove the conffile status of a file after it is > no longer a conffile. dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile does not > seem to do this, based on the documentation and the source code. > > Is there a clean way to implement t

Clearing the conffile status of a file

2017-07-12 Thread Florian Weimer
I've got a request to remove the conffile status of a file after it is no longer a conffile. dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile does not seem to do this, based on the documentation and the source code. Is there a clean way to implement this (i.e., by not patching /var/lib/dpkg/status directly)?