[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#326644: gpm: modifies conffile?

[Justin Pryzby]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:15:36AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> 
> [Justin Pryzby]
> > Based on my understanding of the situation, an old version of GPM had
> > a conffile, which is now a UCF-handled configuration file, no?  If
> > this is correct, I propose that GPM should parse any existing
> > conffile, and determine all the values it sets, and store those
> > values via debconf.  This should happen in preinst, I think.  Then,
> > in the configure stage, it should prompt the user for any unset
> > values.  In postinst, it should use UCF to create a _new_
> > configuration.
> 
> In fact, this is *exactly* what gpm does.
> Have you got any other bright ideas?
Then why does it prompt me?  Does prerm remove the conffile after
parsing it?

Justin