Re: Weird conffile case
On 3 March 2014 13:51, Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> wrote:
> On Monday 03 March 2014 08:59:01 Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote:
>> It is upstream's choice. But I will include such a patch, it is quite
>> trivial. But this is not the case here.
>> The problem is that installing the package asks for users' decision
>> (keep config, replace with maintainer, etc).
>> Applying the patch won't, unfortunately, solve my problem here. Thank
>> you for the suggestion anyway.
>
> It won't solve the problem for the *next* release. But the problem should be
> solved after. So I guess that's a fair solution (even if not ideal).
I agree this is a nice solution with a patch, I will integrate it for sure.
However what should be done in such situation with bug 740332 ?
Should I close it with the new release?
>
> If you really want to solve this problem for next release, you will have to:
> * stop delivering mararc in /etc/maradns/ (i.e. no more conffile problem)
> * manage mararc file in postinst, i.e. update mararc on package upgrade and
> create a fresh marac on new installation.
>
> The last point is not easy to get right.
>
> For what it's worth, I'm trying to handle lcdproc configuration this way
> (while providing automatic configuration upgrade). [1]
>
> That said, Russ's proposal is probably the most simple.
>
> HTH
>
> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/PackageConfigUpgrade
>
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