Re: Changes in a conffile
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:25:36PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > The htdig package uses a configuration file, /etc/htdig/htdig.conf,
> > which defines the location of a database file.
> > In a recent version I changed the location of the default path to
> > comply with the debian policy.
> >
> > An upgrade of the htdig can fail now (bug #133867), because this
> > location should be changed in the configuration file too. Can I
> > modify the location (if it's still listed as the old location) in the
> > configuration file from the postinst script? Policy (ch 11.7) is not
> > very clear about it IMHO.
>
> Change the path in the conffile in the package. Don't do anything in
> postinst. dpkg will notice that the conffile in the package has
> changed and prompt the user. If they are too stupid to [D]iff and
> observe the changes, that is entirely their problem
Personally I prefer packages that fix paths themselves... as long as they
don't fuck up anything else in the process :)
> (packages which add spurious extra warnings on top of this are INCREDIBLY
> annoying).
I disagree. I'd put extra warnings about a critical change like this at
least in /usr/share/doc/htdig/README.Debian.
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