Re: debconf note
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 14:09 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 07:49:01PM +0100, Matthijs Mohlmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've read in the policy that you shouldn't add random notes. But i'm not
> > sure of this one:
> >
> > I have pdns and added some debconf questions and i have also moved the
> > recursor to a seperated package. The original package was pdns. Shall i
> > inform the users that the recursor now is in a seperate package?
> I would think so, if I understand the situation correctly. You should
> avoid the situation where a package upgrade breaks a DNS system
> because of functionality removed from the main package.
>
It does not break the main DNS system. It removes the recursor which
powerdns can use to search for other domains it is not authoratitive
for.
> I think debconf will mail root if an interface isn't available
> (imagine an upgrade script:
> for A in $HOSTS; do ssh $A aptitude update;
> ssh $A aptitude upgrade;
> done;
> ).
>
> In that case, the only email will be sent to root, who might not be
> the DNS admin and so it might take a while for the note to be
> redirected to the right person. So, debconf maybe can't handle that
> appropriately?
>
> Maybe you should have an upgrade package: pdns would become an empty
> package which depends on pdns-recursor and pdns-server.
>
I think that's the best way to go.
> You might also add the change to the package description.
>
> Justin
Thanks for input.
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