control: retitle -1 Provide a way to transfer config files between packages control: reassign -1 dpkg control: severity -1 wishlist
[2012-06-24 15:23] Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi> > 2012/6/23 Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com>: > > [Roger Leigh] > >> If you do have any ideas about how this can be safely handled, we > >> would of course be very happy to hear them. > > > > What about changing them in the bootlogd package, and check if the md5sum > > of the scripts are the ones from the old initscripts package or the new > > bootlogd package? It would make it possible to detect if ti is the old > > ones from initscripts or the new ones from bootlogd. > > > > Are you sure they are listed as obsolete by dpkg when both initscripts > > and bootlogd are installed? I doubt it, but have not tested it. > > I don't have bootlogd installed. > > However, I'm starting to feel that we need a proper > dpkg-maintscript-helper method to deal with config files that change > package ownership, especially in cases when the new package that > adopts some config files won't necessarily be pulled in as a Depends > or Recommends of the old package. > > I'd really welcome the feedback of dpkg maintainers on how this could > be best handled. I am sorry, that this bug was not addressed properly. It timed out on sysvinit, reassigning to dpkg.