Re: Bug#564334: cameleon: Config files not preserved when updating.
Hello,
2010/1/19 Guillaume Yziquel <guillaume.yziquel@citycable.ch>:
> Mehdi Dogguy a écrit :
>>
>> IMHO, It's not even an issue. We changed the used library and its
>> configuration directory changed as well since it matches the library's
>> name.
>
> You upgrade a package. You lose your configuration. This is not an issue.
>
> ?
I would be inclined to agree with Guillaume and say in such case that
this is an error not to keep configuration from one version to the
other of the same software.
On this other side, as an application developer, doing and maintaining
such upgrade path can be complicated and should be balanced with the
impact of re-doing the configuration for the user. I don't know
Cameleon but I assume re-configuring the application is not such a big
task. Moreover, in this particular case, the non-upgrade issue should
appear only once. So closing this bug seems to me quite reasonable.
Maybe adding a short note in README.Debian could be useful.
Best regards,
d.
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