bug 266981

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> [2005-05-01 23:48]:

> Rafael Laboissiere schrieb am Sun 01. May, 18:41 (+0200) :
>
> > I think that these files existed at some point in testing.  People
> > who installed the version of the jed-common package that contained
> > them have the files left in the system after the upgrade.
> 
> Do you know why? Have the changed it or why have dpkg left them?

dpkg leaves them because they are conffiles (i.e. under /etc).

> Can you say, which version I have to install to get this problem?

This is the relevant debian/changelog entry:

jed (0.99.15-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.  Closes: #112721.
  * Removed 00site.sl and 99defaults.sl to be replaced by single 00debian.sl,
    which will be used for most debian-specific changes
  * Added paste_mode.sl (by John) and an autoload for it in 00debian.sl
  * Added indent_buffer and indent_region_or_line functions to 00debian.sl

 -- Charl P. Botha <cpbotha@debian.org>  Sat, 13 Oct 2001 01:57:59 +0200
 
> > them in one of the maintainer scripts of the jed-common package.  The
> > postinst script seems to be the best place for doing it.
> 
> Why not in preinst to avoid conflicts with a new package. 

I do not see which kind of conflict it may cause, but if you are positive
on the issue, just go ahead and add the removal code to preinst.

> > Jörg, do you want to implement this, or should I do it?
> 
> Yes, I do it.

Thanks.
 
-- 
Rafael