Re: Accepted mldonkey 2.5.17-1 (i386 source)

["Sylvain LE GALL" <sylvain.le-gall@polytechnique.org>]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 12:07:05AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Sylvain LE GALL <sylvain.le-gall@polytechnique.org> writes:
> 
> > Format: 1.7
> > Date: Thu,  8 Apr 2004 22:28:10 +0200
> > Source: mldonkey
> > Binary: mldonkey-gui mldonkey-server
> > Architecture: source i386
> > Version: 2.5.17-1
> > Distribution: unstable
> > Urgency: low
> > Maintainer: Sylvain LE GALL <sylvain.le-gall@polytechnique.org>
> > Changed-By: Sylvain LE GALL <sylvain.le-gall@polytechnique.org>
> > Description: 
> >  mldonkey-gui - Graphical frontend for mldonkey based on GTK
> >  mldonkey-server - Door to the 'donkey' network
> > Closes: 239438 240443 241085 242695
> > Changes: 
> >  mldonkey (2.5.17-1) unstable; urgency=low
> >  .
> >    * New upstream release
> >    * Correct creation of .mldonkey directory structure. This help mldonkey to
> >      be launch and finish by menu. The directory structure is exactly the same
> >      as before, expect a .mldonkey/.mldonkey dir which containes the
> >      mlnetstrings file. ( Closes: #240443, #241085 )
> 
> Hidden files/dirs inside hidden dirs are frowned uppon. Whats wrong
> with .mldonkey/mldonkey?
> 
> 
> MfG
>         Goswin
> 
> 

Hello,

Inherited from the previous debian packager ;-)

Just to sum up : 
- you choose to ( if i remember well ), to run mldonkey user session
  into .mldonkey. It creates all the .ini file, et al
- i continue your work, but with mldonkey_server which provide more
  things ( ie, auto restart system et al, loggin to syslog... ), still
  in .mldonkey
- someone in the mldonkey team decide to use $HOME/.mldonkey to store
  i18n strings for mlnet ...

So it should not be a problem, since we are using the same rep... But,
it doesn't work if you use it with a system user : no home, you need to
set a $HOME and you need to be sure to have this home writeable...

So having the possibility to run mldonkey with unpriviliged user, make
me need to set this .mldonkey/.mldonkey in order to be sure to have a
writeable place to output a string ( if not, mldonkey doesn't start ).

I am not very happy with this, but it is the only idea i found to have a
fix ( i should have work harder, but time is fighting against me ).

Kind regard
Sylvain Le Gall