Helmut Grohne wrote: > > In the unlikely event that the admin called it, it would detect that > > the file was a conffile and not delete it. > > An admin could call update-catalog --transition for a package that was > not rebuilt with the newer debhelper. In that case harm would still > happen. Do you have an idea about how to prevent this?
Since this is deleting possibly modified config files on upgrade anyway, this doesn't seem worth worrying about. > > I do not see any complexity in a versioned dependency; > > dh_installcatalogs already adds one. > > It must be a Pre-Depends, since we are using it in preinst. Ok, that's annoying as each package would need misc:PreDepends added. In that case, maybe this should be left in debhelper. I am pretty uncomfortable with it though, especially since it does delete config files. -- see shy jo
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