Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 13:04:50 +0900 (JST), Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> said:
> From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Subject: Re:
> Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant) Date: Sun, 20 Apr
> 2003 20:52:43 -0500
>> > Without the current cheme all TeX system breaks so, in short, the
>> > new scheme is indispensable infrastructure for TeX system and
>> > there is no choice other than to accept to the new scheme.
>>
>> Rubbish. You could have let the old system remain, and posted a
>> high priority note saying that replace the config files with
>> *.dpkg-new or else TeX shall break. Let the human make the
>> decision. With a manual merge, perhaps the admin would carry
>> changes over.
> In this point, I was very confused.
That has been evident for a long while.
> I have an impression that someone said that we should remark with
> debconf and others said that it was abuse of debconf. What is the
> correct understanding?
Over writing user changes is a violation of policy. Asking
users if it is ok with them if we violate policy is not good
enough. If this is still hard to explain, please ask your
advocate. If you do not have one, please get one.
manoj
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