Re: May packages rm -rf subdirectories of /etc/ ?
On 24 Jul 2003 14:07:35 +0200, Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk> said:
> On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 13:46, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> I see this as totally bogus. Either the conffile is shared or it
>> isn't. If it's shared then the packages involved know this
> Package foo which eliminates /etc/foo.conf doesn't "know" that there
> is not some other package, bar, which Depends on foo and uses
> /etc/foo.conf . That's the problem. See
>> 108587 for additional discussion.
This is an impossible situation, and would place an
unreasonable burden on packages that wish to remove conffiles. What
needs to happen is the maintainer of such package needs to look at
the reverse depends on his package, and inform the maintianers of all
dependent packages that the conffile is going away. The depending
packages can either do an versioned dependency on an older version of
the package (which contains the conffile), or create their own, new,
conffile.
After all, we are all in this project together, are we not,
and we can indeed communicate with each other without having dpkg or
policy mediate for us?
manoj
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