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Re: Is this a serious bug?



Hello

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 05:22:25AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > I saw this serious bug, #268068, in the package backuppc. As I'm
> > maintainer of wwwconfig-common I really want to know if this is
> > a release critical bug or not. I assume that it is not but I need
> > to know. Because if it is then most packages that depend on
> > wwwconfig-common will have RC bugs in them, including my own.
> 
> Then backuppc must ask the user whether or not to modify the config
> file.  I don't think you can assume that most programs don't do that.
> 
> So yes, this is release critical, and easily fixed.
> 
> A better solution would be for wwwconfig-common to do the asking.

No that is not really a good solution becuase then you will have
installation halted a once for each webapp.

> But even better yet would be to find a method that doesn't require
> modifying the file.  For example, by having a directory of config
> files and wwwconfig-common can install into that directory.  Or, by
> having a non-config file which has an automatically-managed entry for
> each package that needs to install into the www configuration, and the
> config file includes that one.

Such thing already exist. Apache now has config.d support so it is
just to drop a symlink at the right place. I do not want to make
such changes pre-sarge though.

Regards,

// Ola

> Thomas

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