This one time, at band camp, Pierre Habouzit said: > Le Jeu 3 Novembre 2005 12:39, Aurélien Labrosse a écrit : > > On Jeu 3 novembre 2005 12:21, Stephen Gran a écrit : > > > This one time, at band camp, Aurélien Labrosse said: > > >> What do you think about? > > > > > > It depends on how extensible the templating is, I would think. If > > > dspam can look in subdirectories of the template directory, just > > > put a symlink to /etc/dspam/templates, so that local admins can > > > override the defaults. If it can't look in subdirectories, then you > > > are forced to put the whole templates directory somewhere in /etc, > > > I'm afraid. > > > > > > Shipping config files in /usr/share is a policy violation for a > > > reason. > > > > What to you think about this solution? install templates into > > /usr/share/dspam/upstream-templates/ and link this directory to > > /usr/share/dspam/templates/, and add some comments about template > > customization into the README.Debian? > > I don't want to seem rude, but dspam CGI takes the TEMPLATE directory as > a configuration > > my guess is to let things live in the right place (/usr/share) and put > an note in README.Debian suggesting to adjust $CONFIG['TEMPLATES'] to > the path where the sysadmin put the new templates. > > and if he just want to make a 'little' patch, he can just symlink the > one he don't modify and copy the ones he does. > > you just have to make configure.pl a config file , e.g. let it be a > symlink to /etc/dspam/dspam-cgi.conf That seems reasonable - a note in README.Debian about how to set up a new template directory (e.g., copy the old one, add new templates, etc) is probably all that's needed in this case. No need to cc: me, BTW - I do read the list. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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