On Fri, May 06 2016, Robert Luberda wrote: > This is a side effect of using python's configparser module to write the > new version of configuration file (Another drawback is that it loses > comments. But in my opinion it is still better than previously, when > `dpkg-reconfigure apt-listchanges' forced the prompt if the > configuration file contained any setting not managed by debconf).
> I can skip calling ucf when the files differ by whitespaces only (i.e.
> when `diff -wB' returns no output).
> Maybe a better way of fixing this would be to add some option to ucf
> that would cause it to ignore differences in whitespaces while deciding
> if files are different; Manoj, what do you think?
Hmm. I can certainly support something along the lines of an
environment variable or command line option setting
extra-diff-arguments, which can be then set (or unset) by the
maintainer script. I am not sure that white space differences are
irrelevant for all configuration files, so changing current behaviour
would have to be done carefully, but opt-in is certainly feasible.
Please do file a wishlist bug to track this feature.
manoj
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