OoO En ce début de soirée du dimanche 27 avril 2008, vers 21:58, Teodor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait:
> tags 478170 - wontfix > thanks Uh? This tag is maintainer wish only. > On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If you install earlier versions of roundcube, you get >> /etc/default/roundcube. This file has been replaced by >> /etc/default/roundcube-core (because roundcube is now a >> metapackage). Since we don't want to bother users that did not modify >> this file, we ship this file instead: > I see your point now: the files were moved from the 'roundcube' > package to 'roundcube-core' package. In this case the package should > not declare it owns these files. > The logic is that for any given package, the command "dpkg -L > PKG-NAME" will list the files and ALL of them should exist even if > empty. That's my opinnion. For example if you prefer to keep the file > '/etc/default/roundcube' it should add a comment that explains that is > NOT in use and someone should modify '/etc/default/roundcube-core'. I want to get rid of /etc/default/roundcube since it is useless. If I leave them, someone will file a bug telling that roundcube leaves empty useless config files around. However, I cannot just simply drop them from the package because some people installed earlier version of roundcube package and may have modified /etc/default/roundcube. They should be aware that the content of it has moved to /etc/default/roundcube-core and I cannot do it myself because a package do not have the right to mess with files modified by the user. This is why roundcube ships an empty (with comments) file. I could add a debconf question and many other workarounds but this is cumbersome and overly complicated while the current fix relies on standard conffiles mechanisms with the only drawback that dpkg -L will list files that do not exist anymore. And I still fail to see why this is a bug. As a user, I can delete myself a conffile. It still will be listed in dpkg -L. -- BOFH excuse #35: working as designed
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