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Re: best way to announce important changes



On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:00:08AM +0100, Christoph Wegscheider wrote:
> According to the developer reference (6.3.4) such changes should be
> mentioned in the News.Debian file. I think that's not enough, because
> if one doesn't change the conf file rsnapshot will not fail, but will
> do things (most likely) not wanted by the user. Therefor I intend do
> show a warning with debconf. 

Don't bother with the Debconf stuff.  Put it in NEWS.Debian and
README.Debian.  If the config file has really changed in that way, then move
it out of the way, and ensure that the program will bomb (possibly with an
appropriate error message) in the absence of the config file.

- Matt

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