Re: create a package for multiple debian versions

On 2009-09-11 09:07, Marek Simon wrote:
Hi,
I am working on a autbuilding system to build my packeges. I want to make packages for both lenny and etch version. But the package changes some other aplication's config and the configuration is different for both version - the postinst and postrm scripts are totaly different.
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Could someone show me a way (and let the way be debian way) how could should I effectively solve it? I dont want the complete howto, just some outline or idea.

There's a debian-mentors list, full of Debian Developers with good ideas on how to handle this.

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