Bug#87711: marked as done ([AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example configuration files)
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From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>
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Subject: [PROPOSAL] Clarification of example configuration files
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Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.2.0
Severity: wishlist
[Following from a thread on -mentors]
The question: can you have a default configuration file in
/usr/share/doc which is copied by the postinst to /etc if it does not
yet exist?
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:21:06PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote:
> Maybe you misunderstood what I was referring to... of course changing or
> messing with them isn't, but generating/installing them from e.g.
> /usr/share/doc/foo/examples is a violation, according to 13.3.
Ah, you're right. 13.3 and 11.7.3 contradict over this point: 13.3
does not permit accessing it from a program, whereas 11.7.3
specifically suggests this course of action.
I would like to suggest the following resolution:
A common practice is to create a script called `<package>-configure'
and have the package's `postinst' call it if and only if the
configuration file does not already exist. In certain cases it is
useful for there to be an example or template file which the
- maintainer scripts use. Such files should be in `/usr/share/doc' if
- they are examples or `/usr/lib' if they are templates, and should be
- perfectly ordinary `dpkg'-handled files (_not_ `conffiles').
+ maintainer scripts use. Such files should be in
+ `/usr/share/<package>' or `/usr/lib/<package>', with a symbolic
+ link from `/usr/share/doc/<package>/examples' if they are
+ examples, and should be perfectly ordinary `dpkg'-handled files
+ (_not_ `conffiles').
The reason I'm suggesting this is that there is talk of dpkg being
able to selectively ignore (not install) certain directory trees.
Now, if someone decides to ignore /usr/share/doc, the original method
will break, but this one will still work. And the decision whether to
use /usr/share or /usr/lib is probably not about templates, but about
whether the package is arch-indep or not, as per FHS.
I'm not convinced that this is the right thing to do, though; what do
people think?
Please keep the discussion to the BTS only, which is automatically
copied to -policy, so that this doesn't get discussed on three mailing
lists.
Julian
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:24:21 +0100
From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>
To: 86507-done@bugs.debian.org, 87007-done@bugs.debian.org,
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Subject: Bugs closed: debian-policy_3.5.3.0_i386.changes INSTALLED
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 08:10:16 -0400
From: Debian Installer <installer@ftp-master.debian.org>
Subject: debian-policy_3.5.3.0_i386.changes INSTALLED
To: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>,
Debian Policy List <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
Installing:
fhs.txt byhand
fhs-2.1.html.tar.gz byhand
policy.txt.gz byhand
menu-policy.txt.gz byhand
mime-policy.txt.gz byhand
virtual-package-names-list.txt byhand
policy.pdf.gz byhand
policy.html.tar.gz byhand
libc6-migration.txt byhand
debian-policy_3.5.3.0_all.deb
to pool/main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.5.3.0_all.deb
debconf_specification.txt.gz byhand
policy.ps.gz byhand
debian-policy_3.5.3.0.dsc
to pool/main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.5.3.0.dsc
debian-policy_3.5.3.0.tar.gz
to pool/main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.5.3.0.tar.gz
Changes: debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
* Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
* Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
package for the time being
* Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
* Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
* Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
* Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
* Correct typos etc. in policy-process
* Rename all .text files as .txt
* Fixed the to to typo in policy. closes: Bug#87007
* Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
* [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
Build-Depends arch syntax
* [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
configuration files
* Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
version.
Announcing to debian-devel-changes@lists.debian.org
Setting bugs to severity fixed: 86507 87007 87711 87828 88651 88788 91276 93047 93620 93705
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