Bug#388118: xserver-xorg: please use ucf instead of an own config-tracker

[David Nusinow <dnusinow@speakeasy.net>]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 07:45:28PM +0200, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg
> Version: 1:7.0.23
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hello,
> 
> when you are currently working on the package-configuration-scripts
> anyways it would probably a good time to suggest the use of ucf instead
> of your own config-modification-tracker. ucf does the same, i.e. you
> feed it with a dynamically generated conffile, it checks if the current
> conffile has been modified manually and installs the new version if not.
> However, it does also offer many things like the original dpkg-conffile
> handling, like presenting the user 3-way diffs, let them choose a
> version, things like that. So it's probably more convenient for both
> sides: for you because your scripts get smaller, for the users because
> they get more comfortable and more debian-like conflict-handling.

While this is a good option given what we have, I believe the proper fix is
to provide the server with good defaults and detection code (much of which
is already present but needs to be evaluated and tweaked to our needs) and
go without a config file except for what the user actually wants to modify.
This is planned for post-etch, but until we get that up and running I'll
leave this report open, since our config handling does suck.

 - David Nusinow