Re: Bug#132530: base-passwd: rename .org extension to .dpkg-old
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:11:22AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 04:23:30PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote:
> > The old passwd files should be backed up into *.dpkg-old to be
> > consistent with other packages. One example of why it is important to
> > be consistent, although it might not be explicitly mentioned in the
> > Debian Policy Manual (although it should be), is this: After updates,
> > I do a "find / -name *.dpkg-*" to see which configuration files have
> > been modified. My sanity check would miss your *.org files, which in
> > the case of the password files, could have tragic consequences.
>
> dpkg maintainers: is there any kind of namespace policy on *.dpkg-*
> (i.e. is it reserved for conffiles)? It would seem useful if other
> packages could use that pattern, since various tools special-case it,
> but I thought I'd check.
I had a brief conversation with the dpkg maintainer on IRC:
<Kamion> wiggy: did you ever say what you thought about #132530?
<wiggy> !linkurl
<eunice> http://www.wiggy.net/debdevel.html
<wiggy> I don't think I agree with that proposal
<wiggy> update-passwd can also be run outside of the maintainer scripts
<wiggy> and soon people will want passwd and other tools to use .dpkg-*
extensions as well
<wiggy> also, I'm pondering getting rid of .dpkg-old
<wiggy> or redoing that
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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