[Logcheck-devel] Bug#542265: sendmail-base and logcheck-database: error when trying to install together

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Frédéric Brière <fbriere at fbriere.net> [2009.08.22.1855 +0200]:
> Nah, that could easily be avoided by making sure that the (unmodified)
> conffile doesn't belong to any package when postinst is called.  The
> basic idea is to avoid this sequence:
> 
>   - Unpacking logcheck-database
>   - Unpacking sendmail-base
>   - Configuring logcheck-database
> 
> At that point, we don't want to remove the file, since it now belongs to
> sendmail-base.

I believe you have to make such removals in preinst or postrm, which
are both also called on upgrades, aren't they?

> Or, we could just have sendmail-base replace logcheck-database and
> call it a day.  :)

that is what Replaces is for.

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