Re: Another job for the QA team
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 11:32:40AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> In my new version of the fvwm package (2.2-x), there have been radical
> changes. The postinst will do its best not to irrevocably retrieve
> the information it expects to currently be present, but it warns the
> installer that certain information may be lost, thus giving them a
> chance to rescue it first. I do not think that this is an
> unreasonable query, but better ways of handling it are always welcome.
I'd qualify this as an important info, and if doing something else would
cause harm (and release-critical bug reports ;), then do leave the pause.
However, it'd be nice if you would just leave the old stuff in place
and add new stuff. Or move all old stuff to a backup location, replace
with the new stuff, check integrity, and (depending on the result) then
revert or delete backup.
> A more questionable example: "Should I make this the default window
> manager?" We could always do so be default, but since the sysadmin
> may have already chosed the default window manager, they may not like
> this behaviour.
This is a tricky one. One could assume that if you selected a window
manager, you want to use it, but whether it is default... I don't know.
I can't wait for debian-admintool to resolve this, by asking the question
somewhere in the installation procedure.
> And of course, dpkg asks questions when trying to upgrade modified
> conffiles.
I think this is a good thing. It is one of the purposes of marking files
as conffiles, so that they don't get overwritten automatically during
upgrades. It may seem ugly/annoying, but is very useful.
> So we're left with purposeless questions: "Do you realise that this
> package has been upgraded? You must see the README! Press enter to
> continue...." Of course the package is being upgraded!
:) That is why we all have to cooperate more with the FAQ and Release
Notes maintainers, so that all these 'upgraded-package-prepare-for-doom'
announcements get in the place where people are supposed to read them.
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