Re: Release-critical Bugreport for February 22, 2002
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Roland Mas wrote:
> > Package: sourceforge (non-US/main)
> > Maintainer: Roland Mas <lolando@debian.org>
> > 134058 [ ] sourceforge: change to nsswitch.conf makes system unusable
> > 134724 [ ] sourceforge: Contains conffiles outside /etc
>
> Fixed in incoming.
The last time I tried this package, it was so far from being release-ready
it was not funny. It was half-finished at best... I had to purge all the
auto-install stuff from the postinst, rebuild, install that and then go
through the install helpers one by one, and fix whatever they didn't manage
to get it right.
And that was quite a lot of stuff (e.g: passwords for the bots and admins
were not set up correctly, the scripts used a royally screwed up ldif that
slapd wouldn't even allow into the db because it failed the schema checks,
and so on). I didn't bother filling a bug, since it was so damn obvious
those scripts were not finished yet. Maybe I should have.
This was less than a month ago. Did you guys get it up to shape this fast?
Also, are you guys still outragerously violating policy by running scripts
that change just about every important part of the system (including config
files of other packages) on the _postinst_ ? (hint, remove the autoconfig
stuff from the postinst, and tell the user to run the config wrapper by
hand).
I am grateful at the work the debian-sf team is doing, and it is MUCH easier
to setup even that broken package I tried, than doing it from scratch. Still,
it was not something we should have in the next stable the last time I
looked at it.
Well, I will give the new package a try this weeked. I hope you guys have
fixed it all, an easy-to-install debian-sf would be a damn good thing.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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