Re: "All packages use debconf"
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > > Debconf is not compatible with conffiles, and I'd much rather have a
> > > good default and a conffile rather than hacked together debconf
> > > script asking low priority questions that I will never even see
> > > overwriting my changes.
> >
> > Maybe a good compromise would be to notice that /etc/foo/bar.conf
> > already exists, and offer the user the choice of deleting it and
> > starting again from the original "bar.conf" distributed with the
> > package (perhaps stored as /usr/share/doc/foo/examples/bar.conf).
>
> I think that's a good compromise for packages that need debconf. I think
> it's a step backwards for packages that previously used a perfectly good
> default conffile, and were debconf'd for no good reason, because before
> if I hadn't touched the file, it would be updated with the new settings
> transparently, and if I had changed it, dpkg warned me, and gave me a
> chance right then to compare, choose, or integrate by hand.
Is there any way to make something to substitute the "maintainer's
version" of a conffile, that comes with the package, with something
generated by a script using debconf?
If it was possible, it could allow use of debconf and also allow the old
way with warning if manually changed, diffs and so on...
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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