[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#1094636: dpkg conffile modified warnings on upgrades

[Yavor Doganov]

Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 29.01.25 um 15:08 schrieb Yavor Doganov:
> > Also, shouldn't this code snippet be in prerm instead of preinst
> > (and only applicable for the "upgrade" action)?
> 
> You can't retroactively add code to existing packages. Can you be more
> specific, why you want to add that code to the prerm of the "existing"
> package?

Sorry, it should be in preinst, of course.  My head is elsewhere.

> >> But mine is different (bookworm, i386) and I haven't modified it:
> 
> Just curious: What does `hostname -i` return for your system?

192.168.0.1

> I'm aware that the configuration of the system might have changed
> between the initial installation of gnustep-base-runtime and the
> upgrade to trixie. So the above recommendation wouldn't cover a 100%.

Right, but it's still something worth doing.  Thanks for the idea.

> Do you think that the `hostname -i` output is somewhat stable?

Of course not, and this postinst script has always bugged me (I didn't
write it).