Hello David,
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:10:02PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 18:38, Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de> wrote:
> > retitle -2 please mention 20archive in /etc/cron.daily/apt
>
> We can't mention every possible file a package might drop into our
> configuration directory. It's the job of the package who dropped it there
> to tell the user what it does and why.
Of course.
> We mention a specific file (02periodic) so that users who set it for
> themselves might have a pointer where they have set it, but this file
> can't be used by everyone:
> The here mentioned 20archive will override the settings for example
> as it will be parsed later… So it might be even better to remove the
> reference to this file as it can lead to misunderstandings…
Maybe something along the lines of
-# Create /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02periodic file to set your preference.
+# Create /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02periodic file to set your preference;
+# also note that other files in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ might set some
+# of the settings.
> > retitle -3 please review 20archive (incorrect references)
>
> If you mean var/apt/cache -> var/cache/apt typo:
> This one is fixed for a while, just not yet uploaded to sid
> (i think apt/experimental contains it already).
> Anything else?
Nope, this was the issue I had in mind.
> Oh, and now that we have the two clones here at apt,
> what is the bug behind the initial bugreport (this one)?
Well, technically speaking none; I should've assigned the bug instead
of cloning it.
So would you be fine with the following:
close 668305
tags 668407 + patch
tags 668408 + pending
Greetings
Helge
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