On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:36:20AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 07:02:15AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > Debian still has to provide an upgrade path for users upgrading from Sarge. > > > We cannot blindly break users scripts. > > > > Here, the only way seems to be putting an entry in NEWS.Debian (for > > users script, ie things not under our control). > > In addition, I would suggest we reinstate the previous behaviour, but > display a warning when wildcards are used but --wildcards is not set. > The warning would tell people about the migration and explains they must > fix their scripts to use --wildcards before upgrading to etch+1. I can only second that - we really should support our users at least that much (see point 4 in the social contract). Breaking users' scripts in these ways needs more than a simple note in NEWS.Debian (you'll get dozens of them when upgrading from sarge to etch). Cheers, -- Guido
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