[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#468569: Bug#468569: no way to escape mailman/queue_files_present

Thijs Kinkhorst thijs at debian.org
Mon Dec 8 14:20:30 UTC 2008


Hi Marcin,

On Tue, November 25, 2008 14:04, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> Obviously this is only useful for reinstalling the same version, or for
> disaster recovery, but I still think this is worth including.
>
> I have prepared a patch (attached). Before applying, do a:
> svn mv debian/preinst debian/preinst.in
>
> I hated to make the script a preprocessed file, but I could not find any
> better way of determining the currently installed version in preinst.

Thank you for your work. However, I'm not enthusiastic to include it. It's
onyl useful in a small majority of cases, but adds quite some complexity
in the overall packaging...


Thijs






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