Re: Bug#574443: debhelper: New helper proposal: dh_oldconffiles (or similar name)
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010, sean finney wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 02:53:20PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > I will try to merge something during next week-end hopefully. Until then I
> > would be glad if some people could review Joey's old proposal from
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2008/01/msg00143.html
> > to see if there are problems in the approach.
>
> it might be nice if someone were to review/compare this use case for
> dpkg-conffile vs the proposed use case of a dpkg-conffile command from
> the conffile-tracking support[1], and see if the two could co-exist.
Hum, right. On one hand I wanted to avoid polluting the namespace for what
is a binary centralizing work-arounds by hiding it in a shell library but
on the other hand this would limit its use to the configuration scripts
which are shell scripts.
Given this collision, and given that both implementations of dpkg-conffile
would not share the same programming language (shell vs C), I think I
should avoid adding dpkg-conffile and either rename it to something else
or go for the shell function approach.
> speaking of which... is that patch set totally dead in the water now?
> i've been told numerous times in the past couple months that it'll be
> looked at "tonight" or "tomorrow" or will be the "next thing looked at"...
AFAIK it's not, but as usual Guillem has too much on its plate and he has
no clear order of the stuff that he's going to review/merge.
Maybe that would be an idea, Guillem, what about having a sorted list of
stuff that you're going to review/merge that you would update on the fly
so that people can know what's left before them... and maybe they can even
help review the stuff sorted before them (it would be a sort of group
learning of what's acceptable for dpkg).
Cheers,
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