Package: cfengine3 Version: 3.0.5+dfsg-1 Severity: wishlist
As a cf3 newbie, it was far from obvious that the first thing one is likely to want to do is grab a copy of the COPBL and start using it. It would have saved me quite a lot of time if the latest version of the COPBL had been included in the examples directory, and if it had been mentioned in the README.Debian, probably with a pointer where to find more recent versions. If there's some reason not to do that, I suppose that one could have a separate package for the COPBL and it could then be recommended by this package, but it's a fairly small file, so that seems like overkill. In that case just having a pointer in the README seems more sensible. Another advantage of having the COPBL included in this package would be that it could be patched to work better for Debian, and such bugs could be reported here, fixes worked on, and patches then pushed upstream. =-=- For instance, at present the apt package_method does not deal well with packages that cause debconf to attempt to prompt the user. One way of fixing that would be to change: package_add_command => "/usr/bin/aptitude --assume-yes install"; to package_add_command => "/usr/bin/env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive /usr/bin/aptitude --assume-yes install"; (the same goes for the apt-get variants, and probably for the update/delete commands as well) -- I just thought I'd mention that as an example, since you could fix that too if you decide to include the COPBL. Don't worry about this bit of the report if not, as I plan to report this upstream as well (once the confirmation mail arrives from their BTS) -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (800, 'stable'), (200, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages cfengine3 depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdb4.8 4.8.30-2 Berkeley v4.8 Database Libraries [ ii libpcre3 8.12-4 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8o-4squeeze1 SSL shared libraries cfengine3 recommends no packages. cfengine3 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
