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2013-05-21 | Drop conffile handling for upgrades from pre-split ssh package; this was | Colin Watson | |
originally added in 1:4.3p2-7 / 1:4.3p2-8, and contained a truly ghastly hack around a misbehaviour in sarge's dpkg. Since this is now four Debian releases ago, we can afford to drop this and simplify the packaging. | |||
2006-12-23 | * It turns out that the people who told me that removing a conffile in the | Colin Watson | |
preinst was sufficient to have dpkg replace it without prompting when moving a conffile between packages were very much mistaken. As far as I can tell, the only way to do this reliably is to write out the desired new text of the conffile in the preinst. This is gross, and requires shipping the text of all conffiles in the preinst too, but there's nothing for it. Fortunately this nonsense is only required for smooth upgrades from sarge. |