Re: best way to announce important changes
Christoph Wegscheider <wegi@despammed.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I maintain the rsnapshot package, which is a perl script for backups.
>
> In the next upstream version there will be changes which WILL break
> almost all setups. One has to modify the conf file to avoid that.
Is it a conffile or just a configuration file?
> 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.
Depending on the severity of "not wanted", you could simply disable the
script until the configuration file has been fixed.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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