dh_installcatalogs: Turn /etc/sgml/$package.cat into conffiles and introduce dependen...

[debhelper.git] / autoscripts / preinst-sgmlcatalog

diff --git a/autoscripts/preinst-sgmlcatalog b/autoscripts/preinst-sgmlcatalog
new file mode 100644 (file)
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/autoscripts/preinst-sgmlcatalog
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+if [ "$1" = "upgrade" ] && ! dpkg-query -S #CENTRALCAT# >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+       # If the dpkg-query command returns non-zero, the central catalog is
+       # not owned by any package. This is due to an old behaviour of
+       # debhelper. Now that file becomes a conffile. In order to avoid a
+       # question during installation, we remove the old non-conffile.
+       rm -f #CENTRALCAT#
+fi