Re: Daemon config update
Hi,
to add two more comments :
Am 31. August 2016 18:55:08 MESZ, schrieb Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de>:
>Am 31. August 2016 13:51:41 MESZ, schrieb Dmitry Bogatov
><kaction@ruggedinbox.com>,
>> If not, how should I tell user,
>>that default configuration changes and they may want to restart daemon
>>manually?
>
>If anything relevant changes, add a NEWS file to your package, that's
>the accepted convention for informing users. Typically you'd
>auto-restart on updates regardless.
I should also mention that if the changes are quite critical, you can use debconf prompts to inform the user or maybe even ask them what to do, depending on the situation. Don't overdo it though, because users don't want to see too many of them.
Finally: remember that invasive changes will only happen for testing/sid users, and when someone dist-upgrades from e.g. oldstable to stable. In both cases people are expected to pay attention. So it's not like changes will catch people by surprise. (And anyone running unattended-upgrades on testing/sid has no right to be surprised. ;-))
Regards,
Christian
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