Re: ucf: Diversion of /u/b/ucf by etcgit
On Sun, Feb 22 2009, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>> Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Right, but when I hook into apt-get, I can get the configuration file
>>> shipped with the packages.
>>
>> You cannot, since the very purpose of ucf is to give dpkg-conffile-like
>> behavior for configuration files *not* shipped in the package.
>
> But I can get the files dpkg installs in /etc. That's enough for the
> first step. I don't want to create an AI that does everything right. One
> step after the other!
No, dpkg installs _nothing_ in /etc for ucf related files -- so
this is a failure as a first step, for ucf controlled configuration
files. The configurations files are isntalled by ucf (and you propose
disabling even that). So far from an artificial intelligence, you have
accomplished what I would consider an RC bug (breaks unrelated packages
justification).
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/>
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