Re: Update Configuration File: preserves user changes to config files.
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On 20-06-2005 23:11, Donovan Baarda wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 12:24, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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>>On 20-06-2005 16:03, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
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>>>On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:41:35PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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>>>>The problem raised here is that debian-edu packages messes with slapd
>>>>conf(ig)files. That cannot (in the Debian we have today, Andreas!) be
>>>>solved by debian-edu using ucf: Debian-edu is not allowed to mess with
>>>>configfiles of other packages, except if those packages provide a tool
>>>>to do so (like debconf).
>>>>
>>>>Please read Debian Policy 10.7.3 and 10.7.4.
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>
> Sorry to throw in my poorly researched 2c, but IMHO no policy change is
> required... what is required is that the config files be fixed *inside*
> the slapd package.
>
> Much of what the Debian Edu people want from slapd is something that
> others could benefit from.
Agreed. But slapd is pretty complex already, so even if the improvements
required by Debian Edu is useful to others as well, the slapd
maintainers may be hesitant to adopt them.
And same goes for all the other packages Debian Edu currently overrule
the default config for.
I agree that the long term solution is to convince the package
maintainers to adopt (ways to apply) the changes needed by Debian Edu.
But that takes time. And meanwhile Debian Edu probably finds new useful
places to tweak, which again takes time to convince package maintainers
to do....
- Jonas
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