On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:25:43PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hi Andrew! > > On 2004-01-07 13:55 +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > I'm wondering how best to proceed. I'm not sure that I can on-the-fly > > convert the printcap. I'm thinking the best thing I can do is detect this > > situation, and pop up a Debconf note alerting the user to the situation, but > > I wanted to get a general opinion on whether this would be considered abuse > > of Debconf notes before I did this. > My personal feeling is that a debconf note is appropriate here; at > least I would like to see one. Even with priority important. It is not > nice if an apt-get upgrade breaks an important functionality > (printing) and does not tell me about it. NO NO NO. Debconf notes DO NOT excuse RC bugs, and torching existing config files (/etc/printcap is a config file) is an RC bug! If a tool cannot properly handle the non-trivial task of parsing well-formed printcap files, then we should not be shipping such crap, no matter how pretty the interface might look. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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