Bug#760763: libav-tools: conffiles not removed

[Paul Wise]

On Mon, 2014-09-08 at 21:48 -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote:

> Actually, that configuration file should just get removed. Is there a
> better way than "rm -r /etc/avserver.conf" in postinst?

I guess you mean rm -f, but I think the right way to remove it is to use
the dpkg-maintscript-helper support provided by dh_installdeb, since it
will leave the file there if the sysadmin has customised it, since the
sysadmin might want to keep the changes.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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