Re: Managing left-over configuration files

2011-12-15 Thread Malte Forkel
Am 14.12.2011 11:30, schrieb David Kalnischkies: > Hi, > > in general, such questions are better suited for debian-mentors@, > but here we go: > > ... > > I think what you mean is best described/covered with the advice to > have a look at the manpage of 'dpkg-maintscript-helper', but i must > con

Re: Managing left-over configuration files

2011-12-14 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi, in general, such questions are better suited for debian-mentors@, but here we go: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 09:07, Malte Forkel wrote: > Am 14.12.2011 00:00, schrieb Malte Forkel: >> How do I properly handle the old control files?  How do I tell a package >> that a specific file does not belon

Re: Managing left-over configuration files

2011-12-14 Thread Malte Forkel
Am 14.12.2011 00:00, schrieb Malte Forkel: > Hi, > > I'm writing a transitional package to handle a software name change. > The transitional package 'depends' on the new package, which itself > 'replaces' the old package and takes over some of its control files. > All other control files still bel