On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Dustin Kirkland wrote: > >> I've had that feeling, I know. And I'm feeling that way about more >> and more and more utilities. I just don't think I, you, or any of us >> is going to actually getting around to "fixing" every service to >> support a .d style configuration structure. >> >> And that's at the crux of this discussion (whether it's dotdee that >> solves this, or something else completely different). I'm >> wondering/hoping/thinking about other ways we could approach this >> problem, as a distribution > > Here's some lower-hanging fruit: > > http://bugs.debian.org/32877
Heh :-) Can any 12-year-old bug be considered low hanging fruit? :-) In any case, I see that bug 32877 has an updated patch as of Wed, 23 Mar 2011, from Vasily i. Redkin, but I don't see any feedback yet on that latest patch. > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.dpkg.general/11409 I read through this thread too. Very interesting, thoughtful layout of conffile tracking, if a bit complex. But it looks to me like the developer trying to solve this problem is left hanging since February 2010. > It needs someone willing to go through the patches, resubmit them, > and take or give feedback from the list to simplify and polish them. > The result would, in my humble opinion, already be much, much better > than what we have today. Hmm, well, neither of these itches are quite identical to our particular itch, and the proposed/pending/abandoned(?) solutions don't quite solve the problem I need to solve. And I'd hate to spend time simplifying and polishing them entirely in vain. If the maintainers have a punch list of exactly what needs to be solved to get such solutions committed, I'd be glad to help out. But unfortunately I don't have an open ended schedule on this. Cheers, -- :-Dustin Dustin Kirkland Ubuntu Core Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
