Hi, On Sat, 12 Jul 2014, Felix Berlakovich wrote: > I applied the patch from Vasily i. Redkin to version 1.17.10 (and moved > a redundant part into an own function). BTW his patch works great. I > did this in preparation for a possible threeway merge improvement. Is > there still any interest in such a feature? Is there any reason why this > patch was never integrated?
Paul Wise pointed me at http://community.libelektra.org/wp/?p=145 and http://community.libelektra.org/wp/?p=153 which in turn brought me back to this email. A few comments: 1/ your mail doesn't contain any help offer to bring the patch to a state where it can be merged so it was not obvious that you were willing to invest time into improving it 2/ your mail was not very well formatted (a single line) and it's easy to miss it in the flow of mails 3/ you need to seek the input of Guillem Jover who is the main dpkg developer and who already reviewed earlier attempts to bring this feature 4/ yes we are interested in the feature but dpkg is an important piece of software and we must get it right from the start, so extra caution is always a good idea With a few more researches, you could have found our wiki page https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg which then links to https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Proposals/ConffileDatabase which contains the most recent attempt to bring this feature to Dpkg. Sean Finney was working on this but unfortunately he lost motivation due to lack of review by Guillem. Fortunately Guillem is much more responsive nowadays so you might have more luck to bring it to a mergeable state. More links in the archive: https://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2009/09/msg00065.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2009/10/msg00056.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2009/12/msg00041.html (5 years old already :-() Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Discover the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
