* Matthew Exley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-09 00:34]: > I updated from 2.0.8 to 2.0.9 and lost all my flavours configurations > again. This is getting to be very annoying indeed!
Yes, I know that this is a problem. Still, the files aren't located
under /etc and thus shouldn't be expected to preserve changes to them.
Yes, still I agree with you that this is an unfortunate mistake but it
is unfortunately not easy to fix when done right, that is providing a
clean upgrade path. I've thought about this along different directions
and haven't found a nice way out of the IMHO initial shortsighted setup
of the package.
I'd suggest you to use dpkg-divert(8) for the files you change for now,
with the diversion filename that ends in an _ -- that will disable the
diverted plugin name. About the flavours, noone says that your flavour
changes have to use the same flavour name like the distributed ones. I
don't think that I'll make the default flavours configuration files.
I expected a blosxom3 to be available at this time to offer a
posibility for a cleaner default install but that didn't happen neither,
unfortunately. But the changes in the latest update (which was from
2.0-8 to 2.0-9, not an upstream release) were important enough for the
sarge release to provide the update. In fact there was a threat by the
french translation team (unfortunately not in the BTS, but that is a
different matter) to do an NMU which would have included one less bugfix
and would have required a -10 version when had been done, presenting you
with even another one of those unfortunate upgrades.
Still, I don't see this as a regression because woody didn't include
blosxom, and there is nowhere noted that you should expect what you
expect.... And yes, I still agree with you that it is still false to
not do it. :)
So long,
Alfie
P.S.: Of course, feel encouraged to end in a patch or a proposal for a
clean solution. Tagging the files as conffiles while they are lying
below /var is _not_ a clean solution, just in case.
--
"I'm not scared of falling," he told himself.
"The bit I'm scared of is the bit when you stop falling,
and start being dead."
-- Neil Gaiman, "Neverwhere"
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