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Bug#311188: debian-edu-config release critical bug



Hi Steffen,

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 09:32:21PM +1100, Steffen Joeris wrote:
> I know that this is an old and long discussed bug, but please allow me to 
> raise the discussion again right now as I think that the issue is not 
> completely clear.

> First of all the bug is called: "debian-edu-config: Messes "programmatically" 
> with conffiles of other packages"

> The word programmatically also appears in the etch rc policy under point 3 
> (Configuration files), however I have to ask, because there is one exception. 
> It is allowed, if a user explecitely runs an editor.
> Well if someone installs the debian-edu-config package on plain debian, 
> *nothing* will happen at all, except that the cfengine scripts are installed, 
> but cfengine is not started by the maintainer scripts.
> Therefore the user has to explicetely run the cfengine command to activate the 
> scripts and therefore configure the system, which I would call "running an 
> editor scpifically" .
> Of course debian-edu works out of the box and this command is started by the 
> debian-edu-install-udeb package (by its finish-install.d part in particular).
> This IMHO means that there is no RC bug in debian-edu-config about messing up 
> with other packages conffiles.

> What do you think?

In the original bug report, Jonas said:

> Extensions are added to the base-config package that messes with a bunch
> of conffiles based on debconf values.

Is this no longer what happens?  If not, if instead debian-edu-config is
only supplying configuration for cfengine, then I agree with you that this
bug should no longer be considered RC.

Thanks,
-- 
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Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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