Package: ucf Version: 1.17 Severity: wishlist It would be nice to ask ucf whether a configuration file has been changed compared to its database (and work with the return value).
I know I can simply compare the md5sum of the actual file to the md5sum found in /var/lib/ucf/hashfile; but that's not exactly a clean solution, and relies on internals of ucf that might change in the future. The motivation is that we introduce a new configuration scheme in teTeX: Most files that previously were conffiles or, for that matter, ucf managed configuration files, are now simply shipped in the deb in /usr/share/texmf-tetex - but the local admin can customize the system by copying *any* file from that tree to an appropriate place in /etc/texmf. During the upgrade, we want to remove the former conf(iguration) file if it is unchanged, but keep it or move it to an "appropriate place" within /etc/texmf if it has been changed. Regards, Frank -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.14 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- debconf information: * ucf/changeprompt_threeway: install the package maintainer's version ucf/title: * ucf/changeprompt: keep your currently-installed version -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
