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Re: trinity-keyring overwrites sources.list.d -why?

From: Nick Leverton <nick@...>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:37:45 +0000 (UTC)
In article <4EC7163B.7060809@...>,
David Hare  <trinity-users@...> wrote:
>Web page instructions for Squeeze say to use:
>
>deb 
>http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/debian squeeze 
>main
>
>I put that (and the other 3 TDE lines) in 
>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/trinity.list manually.
>
>When "trinity-keyring" gets installed it actually writes to (and 
>overwrites if already exists) that file with this entry:

The file should be declared in the .deb as a conffile, but it doesn't
seem to be.  Which is strange, as debhelper normally assumes all files
in /etc/ are conffiles.

(pause) Aha, the source package has no debian/compat level so it defaults
to very-very-old, when debhelper didn't do that.  I'll bug it for when
Timothy has time to look at it.

Nick
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