Re: stop the "manage with debconf" madness
>> On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 14:07:04 +0100,
>> Matt Ryan <mryan@debian.org> said:
> Personally I use the ask-about-overwrite question in debconf
> because the last time this thread came up the only sensible
> solution was put forward in the attached email. Now, I'm all for a
> better solution when it is determined what that is, *but* I'm not
> for a witch hunt based on what was seen to be previous best
> practice.
I'm sorry that all of us can't participate in all the
discussions on -devel, and some times the optimal solutions are not
reached. But when these solutions were starting to get implemented, I
did point out the policy violations, and even filed a few serious
bugs about them. I did not have the time or the energy then to do
much more.
Around the same time, ucf was written to allow one to manage a
configuration file, allowing one to generate configuration files on
the fly, and still afford the user changes dpkg like protection.
In any case, pointing to an old discussion on -devel is not a
justification for not preserving user changes. Asking the admin
whether one may violate Debian policy ought not to be a license to do
as one wishes.
Secondly, this isnot a witch hunt. What is being done is that
a policy violation in older practice is being pointed
out. Alternatives are being discussed; a witch hunt would have
involved mass RC bug filings.
Debconf did not suddenly give people a reason to not preserve
user changes; amd we had already rejected destruction of user changes
before (one could have written a mainainter script in 1995 that asked
the user once, populated a file in /var/lib/, and forever destroyed
user changes, way before debconf).
manoj
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