On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 11:47:49PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:28:39AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Tue, 07 Feb 2006, Frank K?ster wrote: > > > Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> wrote: > > > > Just a word of caution here: If the administrator has modified the > > > > file, you should not rename or move it, as they may know better > > > > than you what they're doing. A proper course of action would be > > > > warning them, and/or offering to remove the files in question via > > > > debconf. > > > If I know that the file will no longer be read at all, there's no > > > point in pretending that it still have an effect. Renaming it makes > > > this completely clear. > > Right. The problem is that it's not always easy to know if the file > > will no longer be read at all; you can't assume that the administrator > > has left in place your default configuration system. [Likewise for > > failure modes on the presence of an obsolete configuration file; > > unless you know for certain that it will fail, you should give the > > administrator some way to override your guess.] > The package is a dummy transition package. When this version of gnocatan is > installed, no gnocatan config files will be read at all anymore. It might > have been a good idea to try and convert it into a pioneers config file (the > new name of the package), but as long as the name includes "gnocatan", it's > not going to have any effect, since there are no binaries in the gnocatan-* > packages anymore (well, except this maintainer script). > Would that mean it's ok to remove it? Or should I better rename it so they > can use it to convert to a pioneers file by hand? Perhaps that's the best... > I could make a NEWS message about that as well. I think the right thing to do here is to simply remove it if we can determine that it's unmodified. Well, really, I think the right thing is for *dpkg* to remove it if it can determine that it's unmodified; this is bug #330256. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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