Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.7.2 Severity: normal It's not clear from dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) if the package version is optional. Omitting the package version can be useful:
* If doing as the man page suggests and avoiding a pre-depends by testing dpkg-maintscript-helper supports. Here you'd presumably still want to let the action happen in a later upgrade if the old conffile is still present. (At least when removing an old conffile.. doing that when renaming a conffile is probably unsafe.) * In debhelper, which needs to move conffiles sometimes, and doesn't have package version information available. Based on my reading of dpkg-maintscript-helper, if a version of "" is specified, since it uses le-nl to compare versions, it will always run the action, and should handle these cases. I'd like to see that documented, or at least signed off on, before I start using it though. -- see shy jo
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