Re: (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.

[Andrew Shadura <andrew@shadura.me>]

On 10/11/15 13:39, Alec Leamas wrote:
> On 10/11/15 13:26, Andrew Shadura wrote:
> 
>> > I think migrating from old config to a new config in a postinst is okay
>> > as long as you keep the old config and complain to the user that a
>> > manual verification may be needed.
>> > 
>> > As least ifupdown did that a couple of times, and nobody complained :)
> The thing is that dpkg seems to complain. The manual [1] states that:
> 
> "Note that a package should not modify a dpkg-handled conffile in its
> maintainer scripts. Doing this will lead to dpkg giving the user
> confusing and possibly dangerous options for conffile update when the
> package is upgraded."
> 
> In this case, the options presented by dpkg would indeed be both
> confusing and dangerous.
> 
> Seemingly, this is also the root cause to the upgrade path bug #655969 [2].
> 
> Or, did the ifupdown maintainers found a way around the manual, dpkg and
> piuparts checks?

I think you can try to do it systemd way: keep the default configuration
in /usr/lib, and leave /etc for local user configuration which overrides
the default config.

Not sure how good is this idea, I hope others can comment on this.

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Cheers,
  Andrew