clone 295060 -1 retitle -1 Should work with symlinks in /etc/wwwoffle, and respect file removals severity -1 important thanks
Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue 05 Apr 2005, David Schmitt wrote: >> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.3 says: >> >> "local changes must be preserved during a package upgrade" >> >> I was under the impression, that this includes the removal of said >> configuration files. See e.g. >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/08/msg01816.html >> >> "Are they configuration files (to a first approximation, "files in >> /etc")? If so, dpkg considers deleting the file as a valid >> configuration option, and will preserve this across upgrades." > > That discusses conffiles, as managed by dpkg, not files that happen to > be in /etc; this is a case of a "maintainer scripts maintained" file. I I think you are wrong here, Paul. Personally, I cannot put any more effort into this discussion, since I am going on an unforeseen "vacation" as far as my Debian work is concerned right now. I believe that if you don't agree with me and David here, this is a case that should be discussed on -devel, or perhaps even better related to the technical committee. However, it seems unlikely that a decision could be reached that way in time for sarge. Therefore, I suggest that we split this bug - no, I just do it: The part about not preserving the ports and ppp settings should be fixed (and working suggestions are in my and Davids patch). The new bug about symlinks and removing files in /etc/ is now severity important, to allow wwwoffle to enter sarge. This gives us time to sort this out without being in a hurry. I don't mind if you come to a consensus earlier, but I am willing to take part in the discussion with the tech committee after I come back to Debian work (probably at the end of May). >> Thus $HOME/nohup.out can be created iff /var/cache/wwwoffle/temp/nohup.out >> is >> not writeable but will not be removed by your script. > > Huh? We're running as root here. no space left on device, wrong mount options for a network share,... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
