Re: policy violation and bug reports.

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>]

Hi,
>>"Dirk" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> writes:

Manoj> conf file in bin directories!! tob.conffiles:/sbin/tob

Dirk> Lintian brought this up as well. I think it warrants an
Dirk> exception as tob is a bash script, and people might have to edit
Dirk> some settings in the file. Were it not a conffile, they'd loose
Dirk> those customisation during the next upgrade.

	Heck, no. cvs-* scripts are shell scripts, and they load
 customization from /etc/cvsdeb.conf. Just because they are shell
 scripts does not mean they can't have config files, as policy
 dictates, in /etc. Have tob load a /etc/tob.conf, and put cofig
 information in there.

	Here is an example how to set a variable depending on the
 config file, env variable, or command line; while providing a default
 value.

	As I said, poor programming practice is not an excuse for not
 following Policy.

	manoj

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# Command line
while [ $# != 0 ]; do
    value="`echo x\"$1\" | sed -e 's/^x-.//'`"
    case "$1" in
        -R*) opt_rootdir="$value" ;;
        )      OTHER STUFF GOES HERE ;;
    esac
    shift
done

# Load site defaults and over rides. ($conf_ variables are set in there)
if [ -f /etc/cvsdeb.conf ]; then
    . /etc/cvsdeb.conf
fi

# Command line, env variable, config file, or default
if [ "X$opt_rootdir" != "X" ]; then
    rootdir="$opt_rootdir"
elif [ "X$CVSDEB_ROOTDIR" != "X" ]; then
    rootdir="$CVSDEB_ROOTDIR"
elif [ "X$conf_rootdir" != "X" ]; then
    rootdir="$conf_rootdir"
else
    rootdir="DEFAULT VALUE"
fi

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