+1 from me for /var/lib/dpkg/conffiles/etc/foorc and a three-way merge, similar to what CVS does maybe, plus a way to display the diff between the old version and the installed version, with or without applying them to the new version and installing or edi- ting the result.
Any chances on seeing this soon? //mirabilos -- Sometimes they [people] care too much: pretty printers [and syntax highligh- ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant detail in the program, which is as sensible as putting all the prepositions in English text in bold font. -- Rob Pike in "Notes on Programming in C" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
