Closing due to inactivity. Feel free to re-open if you would like to challenge the assessment below.
On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 15:46:25 +0200 Lee Garrett <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Geert, hi Raphael, > > personally, I think that the Debian package should stop shipping > /etc/ansible/{ansible.cfg, hosts} alltogether. The reason is that those files > have a systemwide affect, and can only be edited by root. The former is > problematic if you have several projects, in that case you'd just ship a > ansible.cfg and hosts file within each project. Both those files can be edited > by the local user. For that reason I think adding debconf questions for that > is the wrong approach. But if you really want systemwide hosts and ansible > config, you can still template those with ansible. :) > > What are you thoughts on this? > > Greets, > Lee > > > > On Sun, 14 Oct 2018 14:09:23 +0200 Geert Stappers <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Found today this bugreport ( > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=818008 ) > > even with a patch. > > > > To find out if it stills applies there is now > > https://salsa.debian.org/stappers/ansible > > which has branch 'br818008patch'. > > > > Difference with > > https://github.com/rmedaer/ansible-debian-pkg/commit/7fa153bdcc368fad2c3dc8701fe4a8aa73c80d08 > > is that updating debian/changelong is skipped. If all goes well, > > is @rmedaer the author of the commit. > > > > > > However, the question is what to do next? > > > > Would it make sense to have the patch also here in the Debian BTS? > > > > Should Ansible be configurable by debconf? > > > > > > Groeten > > Geert Stappers > > -- > > Leven en laten leven > > > > > >
