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

[Marcin Owsiany]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 03:20:30PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> 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...

Can you be more specific? This use case (unattended disaster recovery)
is important for me, so I can work on improving this patch.

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