Bug#355746: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#355746: Warn on installation of bootclean if bootclean.sh was modified?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 08 Mar 2006, Thomas Hood wrote:
> Would it be a good idea to print a warning if /etc/init.d/bootclean is installed
> and the (obsolete) /etc/init.d/bootclean.sh script exists and was modified?  The
> warning would say something like:
> 
>    A modified /etc/init.d/bootclean.sh file is present.  This file
>    is obsolete and has been replaced by /etc/init.d/bootclean.
>    If you modified /etc/init.d/bootclean.sh to change the way it
>    cleans files then you should reimplement your changes in
>    /etc/init.d/bootclean.

There is another way:

In *preinst*, check if a modified /etc/init.d/bootclean.sh file is present.
If it is, move it to /etc/init.d/bootclean.

That will cause dpkg to output the usual conffile modified stuff.

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  Henrique Holschuh