[Amavisd-new-debian-devel] RFH: amavisd-new CVS almost ready for unstable

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Brian May wrote:
> IIRC, dpkg doesn't support automatically deleting of conffiles, ever.

Yeah, a defense against badly done renames...

> I don't think a perfect solution exists, because the sysadmin may want
> to keep the old files as a reference...

I found one ;-)

I renamed them all foo to foo.outdated_for_2.3.3, subject to it being an
upgrade from earlier than 2.3.3, and did that in postinst so that we can
ignore rollbacks.

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh