Package: debhelper Version: 7.4.15 Severity: wishlist Hi,
while updating one of my packages (which again dropped a conffile), I had to modify its preinst, according to http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling . This works but is IMHO suboptimal: the code referenced on the wiki has to be hand copied in each and every package that has to move or delete conffiles. This could maybe be done through a dh_oldconffiles (for removing) and a dh_moveconffiles (for moving). Those helpers would read ${package}.oldconffiles in debian/ containing e.g.: 1.0.1-1 etc/oldConfFile.conf etc/anotherOldConfFile 1.0.2-1 etc/thisPackageDeletesManyConfFiles ${version in which it was deleted} ${conffile} and 1.0.1-1 etc/oldConfFile.conf etc/newConfFile.conf etc/anotherOldConfFile etc/anotherNewConfFile 1.0.2-1 etc/foo etc/bar ${version in which it was moved} ${oldconffile} ${newconffile} This would make the handling of those conffiles way much cleaner and robust (the code would be in debhelper only and no more copied all over the place). Thanks for reading ! Best regards, OdyX -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (750, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (700, 'testing'), (90, 'experimental'), (50, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (50, 'experimental'), (50, 'unstable'), (50, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.20.1-2 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.6 Debian package development tools ii file 5.04-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii html2text 1.3.2a-14 advanced HTML to text converter ii man-db 2.5.7-2 on-line manual pager ii perl 5.10.1-11 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-base 5.10.1-11 minimal Perl system ii po-debconf 1.0.16 tool for managing templates file t debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: ii dh-make 0.52 tool that converts source archives -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
