Hello,
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:58:19AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Short notes the debian-admin:
>
> - Please read the section starting "2. What happens on the buildds", you
> might be able to help in debugging, or to provide ressources.
>
> - You should do some dpkg-reconfigure'ing, at least on merulo, because
> of changes in debconf defaults introduced long ago. A detailed
> description of what should be done is at the end, below "3. Detailed
> description what debian-admin should do". The rationale why I think
> this is the right thing to do comes first.
>
[...]
> The first change is documented well in changelog.Debian, the second in
> NEWS.Debian. We have considered that it would be a debconf abuse to set
> all the changed questions to unseen again, annoying people, and doubling
> the information that is yet in the changelog (or NEWS.Debian). Every
> user running unstable is always told that he knows what he's doing, and
> should follow development somehow - or at least read changelogs and
> NEWS.Debian, and I fear this also applies to debian-admin.
I's unbeliveable to read such a statement. What about users who will
upgrade from woody ? It's your job to deal with that, not the
debian-admin or any user running sarge, sid or whatever.
Please read the Debian policy carefully:
E.5: Fully-featured maintainer script configuration handling
If you discover a bug in the program which generates the configuration
file, or if the format of the file changes from one version to the next,
you will have to arrange for the postinst script to do something
sensible - usually this will mean editing the installed configuration
file to remove the problem or change the syntax. You will have to do
this very carefully, since the user may have changed the file, perhaps
to fix the very problem that your script is trying to deal with - you
will have to detect these situations and deal with them correctly.
Cheers,
--
Pierre Machard
<pmachard@debian.org> http://debian.org
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