On Sun, 20 Apr 2003 01:13:50 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It is also a damn hole in Debian policy. That one I will propose a fix >to: scripts that are conffiles MUST test if the package is in the installed >state, and that test MUST either be done by checking for the presence of a >*file* (and no other filesystem object!) that is specific for that package >only in the entire distribution, or by querying the packaging system.
In the last case, there should be a way to do this _easily_. Currently the only way to do this is parsing dpkg --list output, which is mucho ugly. To address the original problem: I think that amavis-ng needs to have its amavisd renamed, and I am working with the amavis-ng maintainer to do this. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29