Re: Bug#150514: Uer maodifications _must_ bre preserved, even is a co-admin said otherwise a few releases ago
>>"Gordon" == Gordon Russell <gor@dcs.napier.ac.uk> writes:
Gordon> Yes I agree that this seems in breach of Policy.
Good. We agree there.
Gordon> The Policy
Gordon> also goes on to say something about not asking questions on
Gordon> an upgrade.
Gordon> I disagree with your philosophy that debian=multi-user and
Gordon> thus system administration is an uncontrolled multi-user
Gordon> activity.
Yes, that is extremely silly,and I am glad I said nothing of
the sort.
Gordon> This is not sensible as a procedure, and I will not go out of
Gordon> my way to support uncontrolled system administration where
Gordon> the administrators do not know what they are doing and do not
Gordon> talk to each other.
Of all the silly strawmen I have seen, this is the
silliest. The point I was making was that in real world environments,
when you have a few harried administrators, under heavy load, and too
many machines to look after, perfect communication, and even perfect
memory of what one did a few months ago on some machine is something
that may not be reasonable to expect. You may live in an idealized
world, but I suggest that Debian may not always be used in a place
called perfect.
Having said all that, I am also not sure whether my example is
general enough to be relevant, but it certainly was not as silly as
you were making it out to be.
Gordon> To be honest there is a lot of truth is what you say, but I
Gordon> am sure that the users will not want a debconf question every
Gordon> time (can be done by setting priority high in the debconf
Gordon> question).
Users seem not to mind when dpkg asks them about conffiles
from time to time, so where are you drawing this conclusion from?
Indeed, I like the fact that sgpkg does ask me every time, and gives
me the option to see a diff and choose, based on the changes made,
whter or not to accept *this particular change*.
I think that for configuration file handling dpkg has set the
gold standard that we ought to be emulating.
manoj
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